Will Pilates Help Me Lose Weight?

Question: Will Pilates Help Me Lose Weight?

Speaking from personal experience and observation over the course of many years, I can say with some certainty that anyone who commits to Pilates workouts will create a trimmer appearance, and most will lose significant weight.

Answer: Pilates is famous for creating long, lean, fit bodies. There are many ways that doing Pilates supports weight loss and a trimmer appearance:

• Exercise burns calories. How many calories you burn depends on your body type and your level of exertion.
  Measuring the Calories Pilates Burns
  Doing Pilates Workouts for Weight Loss
  Pilates and Fat Burning Workouts
  Calculate Calories Needed for Goal Weight
  
  
• Creating lean muscle mass, as Pilates does, is one of the best ways to increase your calorie-burning potential.
  
  
• Pilates tones and shapes the body.
  Sample some Pilates mat exercises:
  Flat Abdominals Series
  Beginner Pilates Exercises
  Quick Workout 1
  
  
• One of the best ways to look and feel thinner is to have beautiful posture. Pilates creates a leaner look by emphasizing both length and good alignment.
  Pilates and Posture
  Pull Your Abs In (properly)
  
  
• Pilates promotes deep and efficient respiration, which is essential for calorie burning and tissue regeneration.
  Pilates Breathing Exercise
  
  
• Engaging in an exercise program, like Pilates, promotes self-esteem and heightened lifestyle consciousness. Both are associated with weight loss.
  Weight Loss with a Healthy Lifestyle
  Exercise and Nutrition - Best Fitness Combo: an interview with expert, Dr. Cory Holly, on nutrition, workouts and weight loss.
  What Do I Eat to Do Pilates?

Pilates is an enlivening workout that can help sustain energy levels throughout your day. However, it is not usually done as aerobic exercise. Therefore, some people enjoy combining Pilates with aerobic/cardio exercise in order to maximize their weight loss.
What Makes a Workout Cardio?
Choosing Cardio Exercises

If you are interested in weight loss you will want to investigate About.com's Weight Loss site, which is excellent. You will also find many tools for weight loss at About.com's Calorie-Count website. Calorie-Count provides a tremendous amount of information about foods and the calories and nutrition they provide, as well as a community of like-minded people sharing experiences and supporting each other.
Go to Weight Loss at About.com

Learn more about using these weight loss ideas, and get more tips.
Read: Healthy Lifestyle Weight Loss
5 Tips for Weight Loss With Pilates