They've been researching stress reduction for decades, and the evidence comes back again and again that the most effective, easiest way to counteract stress is through deep breathing exercises. As we grow tense, the tendency is to take shallower breaths--perhaps a leftover strategy from when stress meant there was a sabre-toothed tiger just around the mouth of the cave. Today's tigers look like bosses or irritable teenagers or insane freeway drivers, but our bodies don't know the difference between a wild beast and the maniac in the next cubicle.
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Home Pilates Can Be a Stress Reducing, Relaxing Exercise Habit
Relaxation involves more than sitting still: exercise is a well-known method for relaxing the body and easing the mind. Exercise increases endorphins, lifting your mood and reducing physical aches. It puts you in a different mind-set, as you work your muscles and increase your heart rate. Exercise can help you sleep better and make you feel refreshed. But at the end of a long day, who wants to go to the gym? You don't have to! Get your exercise mat and start relaxing with exercise.
There are all sorts of exercise fads, but the trends that stay around year after year do so because they work: people like them! Pilates is one such trend: the stretching and muscle strengthening exercises combine with a certain type of deep breathing to help energize your body and mind. The exercises are fun! And for weight loss, muscle toning and relaxation, you can't beat an at-home Pilates workout.
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