Practicing yoga and Pilates 5 big lie

Lies 1: The best hand-Body Flexibility some amazing yoga

Facts: Yoga master is the fight between the "sense of balance," "mental calm and stability" and "spiritual cool and bright," is not a race to see who can be bent arch the body, or head to see who can placed between the legs, if the blind pursuit of this, then you will never just a novice yoga.

Lies 2: Practicing Pilates can stretch the muscles to increase height

Facts: to give up this fantasy bar! Since you were mature, the muscle will no longer change the length, Pilates can do is just to help you stretch to open those that have not fully stretch the muscles only. Can not be denied, however, Pilates exercises can improve the body's flexibility, foster the rise of the right chest standing can indeed make you look more than "tall" the.

Lies 3: Pilates will make you lose weight

Facts: I am sorry to tell you, this is a lie. Unless you have a very high-end Pilates practitioner, or simply by practicing Pilates calories consumed is not enough to make you shed fat.

Lies 4: strong back is a healthy back

Facts: Most back injuries occur because of sudden muscle pull and false floor exercise posture, not because of your back strong enough. If a strong "inverted triangle back," always will be wriggling, or weight lifting exercises were injured, sorry, can only say that it looks not so healthy.

Lies 5: The back is not good to do exercise as little as possible

Facts: Just like the activities of the machine will not rust like to do, like fast walking, the movement of the back of the class recovery is very good intensity of these movements is not yet allowed back many of the muscles to be tempered, and can to reduce the pressure on the spine, so that the fragile recovery back up as soon as possible.