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<\/a><\/p>\nPilates is one of those types of exercises where we often use our own bodyweight as the resistance. This offers quite a few benefits:<\/p>\n
1. You get to know your own body and get in tune with it.<\/p>\n
2. You don’t need expensive equipment to do it at home.<\/p>\n
3. Using your bodyweight has been shown to be an effective way to workout in a short period of time.<\/p>\n
4. You can modify the exercises if you feel you are not strong enough whereas it can be harder to reduce the weight of some equipment.<\/p>\n
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Good Pilates exercises to do that use your bodyweight:<\/span><\/p>\n Planks: 1\/2 planks, full planks, planks with leg lifts.<\/p>\n Press ups: against a wall, half or full.<\/p>\n Squats<\/p>\n Front leg Pull Back<\/p>\n Roll Ups<\/p>\n The hundred with pumping arms<\/p>\n Double leg stretch<\/p>\n Oyster<\/p>\n Next time you do Pilates think about how you are using your body as a weight\/resistance and how you can work against the resistance to work even harder. Think about your arms\/legs being heavy as you stretch them away or them being the weights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bodyweight workouts are those that use your bodweight as the resistance and challenge instead of equipment. Think of lunges, squats, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[444,445,447,439,252,287,175,253,440,441,153,442,118,368,223,446,443],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exercises","tag-bodyweight-workouts","tag-front-leg-pull-back","tag-oyster","tag-pilates-and-bodyweight","tag-pilates-bitterne","tag-pilates-bitterne-park","tag-pilates-hampshire","tag-pilates-hedge-end","tag-pilates-plank","tag-pilates-resistance-workout","tag-pilates-southampton","tag-pilates-strength","tag-pilates-with-priya","tag-priya-pilates","tag-priya-tew","tag-the-hundred","tag-use-your-bodyweight-in-pilates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t