Yoga vs Pilates, maybe Taichi or more?
Most likely you have heard about these two exercises, Yoga and Pilates . Have you found out what the differences are between these two common and popular exercises? We often encounter the question "which is better" in our practice. The answer is not very straight forward. It depends on what the goal of the exercise is. One type of exercise usually does not meet all of our needs. Cross training among different types of exercises, including Taichi , walking, Zumba or lifting weights, will ensure our body becomes more balanced and improves in all areas of exercise components, such as strength, flexibility, endurance, balance and cardiovascular health. The simple explanation of the difference between yoga and pilates would be that yoga is focused on more stretching/flexibility and pilates is focused on more core strengthening. We definitely need both of stretching and strengthening to achieve optimal physical health. On to...