Can Pilates and weight loss be the perfect partnership? Pilates can benefit and enhance your exercise routines in conjunction with your weight loss program. Pilates helps by sculpting the muscles,enabling them to become long and lean. This sculpting of the muscles means a sleek, lithe body.

If you can achieve a lean muscle mass, your metabolism will increase substantially, resulting in the burning of more calories and consequently easier weight loss over all.

Many other benefits are also obtainable with Pilates. Your muscle strength posture and control of your breathing can be improved greatly, as can your balance,muscle strength and physical endurance.

Pilates can help you achieve a great shape, not only giving your confidence a lift but a substantial boost to your self esteem.

It has been suggested that a combination of Pilates and dieting is not as rigorous enough as running or other strenuous exercise, therefore fewer calories burned.

Your main aim is loosing weight so of course the burning of calories is important but it is not the only consideration in the general workout routine.

What are your main goals in your healthy living program?

Is strengthening your body as well slimming down important to you?

Improving your fitness as well as burning up those calories?

Resculpturing your body or just downsizing?

Pilates have the ability to help reshape your body to create a much slimmer effect, even if you have lost less weight than you would have liked. The lean muscle you have created by doing Pilates makes you appear much slimmer,even if the scales do not show much improvement. This is one of the reasons people chose Pilates.

Pilates need not be your only form of exercise. Pilates can done in conjunction with running for example. Why not try Pilates with step or aerobics or Pilates and weight training, the list is endless.

Try and create a workout routine that is best for you and your lifestyle to help achieve your goal, be it weight loss, strengthening and toning of your body or slimming down. Weight loss and Pilates make a winning team in the success of achieving the body and shape we want.