Externally, for the newcomer's unaided eye, it seems that both pilates and yoga are of the same berries field, because both are performed at a slow, relaxing pace, attention is focused not on quantity, but on the quality of repetitions, and the movements are static.
Let's figure out the difference between these, in fact, cardinally different types of fitness - pilates and yoga.
Difference
In fitness, yoga and pilates occupy one niche - they are engaged in women who want to relax after a day's work, relax from a domestic routine, and, in parallel, restore order to the figure.
However, yoga is a philosophy with thousands of years of history. And it is aimed at stretching the muscles.
Pilates is a child of the twentieth century. This type of fitness is aimed at strengthening the muscles and improving the spine.
For beginners to engage in both yoga and Pilates, the help of an experienced instructor is very important. In both directions great attention is paid to breathing and the technique of performing specific asanas (in yoga) and poses. From the pilates and yoga classes one should not expect fast results - this is not a way to lose weight by the summer, but a direction that is chosen for many years.
This is especially true of yoga, where more attention is paid to the spiritual, not the physical. Be prepared that when you come to the training, you are expected not just a coach, but a spiritual mentor, and the exercises themselves will eventually force you to push you to dramatic changes in your way of life, your thinking, your social circle.
Of course, Pilates does not pretend to be a lofty practice. At least this type of fitness is still too young for the spiritual spheres.
It is much easier to understand how Pilates differs from yoga by trying to work out both. We suggest that you try Pilates training.
Exercises
IP - lying on the stomach, forehead on the palms, feet spread widely, we bend the legs in the knees, the heels together. At the same time, we squeeze the heels together and lift our knees above the floor.
We lower our legs, swing the pelvis to the right, to the left to relieve tension from the waist.
Legs are widely spread, we lift our knees, feet above the floor, maximally extend and stretch our legs, then alternately bend them and pull them to the buttocks. At the bend of the socks we pull on ourselves, on straightening - we extend the toe forward. We do first one bend, then two.
We relax the pelvis with light rotations to the sides.
Now perform the entire series first.
During the exercises, pay attention to the correctness of breathing, the tension and relaxation of the socks, to the position of the pelvis, since the effect is achieved only by observing all the smallest nuances.