Pilates forces you to slow down and build awareness of how your body moves, targeting the small stabilizer muscles that prevent injuries. A lifelong weightlifter explains how it improved her lifting performance and flexibility without competing with strength training.
Convince me why I should do Pilates. Because it's slowing you down. It's why I never did it before. I was like, no! It would make you think more about what's happening internally, where there's a lot of external stuff happening in CrossFit, at Orange Theory, things like that. And that's another reason why I love Pilates is because it does require us to slow down and move with intention. It's been crazy for me as someone who's lifted her whole life. I always dealt with like a little injury here and there. Because Pilates strengthens all those little muscles around everything, you're just moving so different and stretching that it prevents so much of that. It makes your lifting so much better.
