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Can pilates help you lose weight?

Source: Pro Pilates

Pilates is a sport low impact which is effective for strengthening, building lean muscle, and improving posture. Sports low impact it means a type of exercise in which both or one of the feet is still on the floor. The question is, can pilates help you lose weight?

Pilates can help with weight loss as long as it is combined with a variety of exercise and other healthy habits. Unfortunately, because pilates is a sport low impact then this one exercise is not as effective as cardio exercise for weight loss.

However, if you are diligent in taking pilates classes and consistently combine it with exercise and other healthy habits, it is not impossible that the scale will drop to the expected number.

If your goal is to lose weight, try doing pilates and combining it with cardio exercises like swimming, running, or biking. In addition, you also need to be consistent in eating healthy foods and reducing your intake of bad fats and increasing healthy fats, fruits and vegetables.

How many calories are burned while doing pilates?

Typically, the number of calories you burn during pilates depends on your current body weight. In addition, the amount also depends on the type of pilates class you are taking.

For example, if you weigh 68 kg, for a 50-minute beginner pilates class your body will burn about 175 calories in one workout. However, if you take a pilates class with a higher level of difficulty then in 50 minutes you can burn about 254 calories.

Meanwhile, to lose about 1 pound (0.5 kg) of body weight, you need to burn about 3,500 calories. Therefore, combining pilates classes with various cardio exercises is the right choice for those of you who want to lose weight.

In addition, you can also try combination pilates classes such as Piloxing (pilates and boxing) and Yogalates (yoga and pilates). Through this combination class, the body will burn more calories than the regular pilates class.

Doing the exercises two to three times a week especially taking combination classes can help you get your ideal body weight.

Pilates benefits apart from losing weight

Although the goal of doing pilates is to lose weight, you can also get other pilates benefits. Pilates helps strengthen the muscles in the stomach and back. That way, fat deposits in the middle of the body such as the stomach become disguised.

So, even though you don't actually experience weight loss, when your abdominal muscles tighten your body will feel slimmer. In addition, Pilates also helps improve posture to become more straight. So that the bones look longer because this one sport helps maximize the range of your muscles and bones.