Pilates exercises or Yoga take your pick

Today the scope of wellness and fitness has advanced way over the regular and standard gym sessions. Today, there is a large variety of fitness options to choose from as an alternative to gym workouts and achieving fitness. The most popular and favoured forms of routines are pilates exercises and yoga.

Pilates exercises is an innovative, fun and safe system of mind-body exercise using a floor mat and or equipment. It can significantly transform the way your body looks, feels and performs. It builds strength without adding bulk, and helps create a sleek, toned body with slender thighs and a flat abdomen. Now isn't this every fitness lover's dream? They are extremely safe as an everyday exercise routine to help you look and feel like a million bucks. It also helps achieve body awareness, good posture along with easy and graceful movement. It is known to improve flexibility and agility that can help alleviate back pain.

The other popular option is Yoga. Yoga is not only an excellent weight loss option, but also, helps develop a healthy and clean lifestyle. There are various forms of yoga, but Bikram yoga has become one of the most preferred options. There are various yoga classes in Dubai that can help you learn and understand it better. Bikram yoga is the 26 postures sequence selected and developed by Bikram Choudhury from Hatha Yoga. These postures systematically work every part of the body to give all the internal organs, all the veins, all the ligaments, and all the muscles everything they need to maintain optimum health and function smoothly.

Pilates exercises and yoga have similar qualities that help build strength, balance and muscle endurance. Yoga tends to focus more on balance for the overall body, whereas than pilates tends to focus directly on spine flexibility and core strength. Pilates have a defined sequence of exercises that can be done on a mat using body weight or a spring board that makes use of weights. At the same time, yoga simply uses the body weight and a mat and no tools and equipment are needed. Both are considered to be effective treatments for chronic lower back pain. Yoga helps in alleviating lower back pain by correcting muscle imbalances in the back, stretching tight muscles and strengthening them, while, Pilates may help lower back pain by increasing core strength and neuro-muscular connection around the spine.