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Specificities and differences in heart rate values related to the pilates and medical yoga classes

In the modem world, which is highly industrialized, urbanized and automated, physical exercise is becoming growing biophysiological need in human life. Natural balance (homeostasis) has been disrupted by ever more overstraneous conditions of hypokinesis and nervous overtaxing that eventually cause physical and mental tensions, like stress, anxiety, r insomnia, muscular stiffness, disorders and discomforts in the skeletal-joint system, and many others. All the mentioned health problems are connected with inadequate breathing. Various types of individually adjusted sports-recreational activities (exercises) can help preventing those negative influences by producing positive changes, and thus considerably improve quality of life. Considering that adequate physical activity is an indespensable factor of health enhancement and preservation, the kinesiological (sports, physical) recreation is seriously facing issues of selecting suitable sporting activity and workload modalities to accomplish the desirable and expected positive aims.(M.Andrijašević, 2001) The medical yoga and Pilates programmes are also a kind of sports recreation that can be categorized into the group of poly structural acyclic physical activities. A class of medical yoga consists of complex of exercises which are performing at the beginning of exercising separately, in alternation with the relaxation phases. Later the separate motions are connected in a series and an experienced participant performs routines continuously, transforming holds of his/her body from one position to another, thus creating one continuous movement structure. In the latter case a yoga class consists of more bodily routines, but the focus is always on relaxation exercises following successively each exercise complex. No matter what the structure of a class may be, every exercise performance is accompanied by regular and conscious breathing and by full concentration not only on a very motion structure execution, but on the activated part of the body as well. In the introductory and main part of a yoga class a considerable accent is on recruiting all skeletal muscles (and joints), as well as on moving spinal coloumn in all directions, which includes also the twisting routines (executed slowly and in congruence with breathing). These exercises can contribute to maintaining flexibility and function of the spinal coloumn at a high level. The closing class part consists of routines aimed at practising skills of relaxation, concentration, breathing and/or of autogenic training. They induce considerable decreases in heart rate values and breathing rhythm.

heart rate values, pilates, medical yoga

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