Basketball: Pilates Rings
June 23, 2008 – 3:01 pmA great addition to your Pilates exercise program is the Pilates rings that will enhance your workout inexpensively. The Pilates technique was originally made for the apparatus named after its creator, Joseph Pilates. The equipment helps to isolate the use of certain muscles, to strengthen them just as you would with free weights or exercise machines.Unlike other machines, the Pilates system does not use weights but rather a combination of your own body weight and gravity for resistance, which is much safer and is equally as effective as weights. If you cant afford to buy the Pilates table, you can always take classes and follow books and videos. But adding the Pilates rings to your workout is one way of helping to isolate your muscles and train your body to follow correct form.The effectiveness of Pilates lies in using very specific full range of motion movements ...