Pilates Health Benefits

Pilates  is a physical fitness system developed in the early 20th century by Joseph Pilates, and popular in many countries, including Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom. As of 2005, there were 11 million people practicing the discipline regularly and 14,000 instructors in the United States alone.

Benefits Of Pilates Improvements in: range of motion, flexibility, body awareness, body control, better balance, weight loss, circulation, posture, and abdominal strength and decreases in back, neck and joint pain. Learn Pilates from HealthFitnessUsa.com
References 
http://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/features/the-benefits-of-pilates 
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/benefits-of-pilates-exercises.html http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/Is-Yoga-or-Pilates-Better-for-You 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilates 
http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Pilates
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