The info you need: Health24: Fitness

Your guide

Check out our step-by-step guides

Weekly Poll

What's your top choice to prevent flu?

YOU ARE IN > Fitness > Specific Sports > Pilates > The info you need

Fitness

The info you need

Need to know more about the specifics of cycling? Or do you need to know the basics? Or maybe you are already an experienced cyclist with a couple of races under the belt? The articles in this section will guide you through tbe basics of cycling.

The science of Pilates

Pilates has been used by the ballet and modern dance world since its beginnings - there are few dancers who are still ignorant of the transforming benefits that it has to offer performing artists.

Pilates 'should be regulated'

Pilates as a stand-alone method is in danger of disappearing into the general morass of a fitness workout, the SA Pilates Educators and Professionals Alliance (Sapepa) warns.

Week two

Week four

Week six

Week nine

List of Pilates practitioners

What is it?

The Pilates exercise technique is a complete fitness method and when performed regularly, it positively changes bodies.

A Pilates session

Pilates exercise works the body from the inside out, beginning with deep structural muscles of the diaphragm, pelvis, lower back and buttocks, and then working up and out.