THE CONCENTRATION
Different from others sports where the automation of the process is looking for, Pilates looks for the opposite, the student always must be conscious of what he / she is doing at any time. Students must not be absent minded and never must be thinking in other issues.
It is similar to the focus principle in body building , the difference is that in body building the sport is focused in the muscle that he /she is working out in a given moment meantime in Pilates the student has to be focused in the whole body and not only in one muscle.
It must not leave the subconscious part of the brain when the next movement starts, not even when we are breathing in this way we will get a total link between body and mind, the breathing must be control consciously.
The student has to have the enough motivation so he will not lose the concentration in any moment of the class.
The total concentration takes us to the Meditation, but the difference between the Asiatic traditional meditation is found in that the person focused his/her energy in something different from his/her body, yoga uses a candle for example, but in Pilates the concentration is dynamic and general.
To get the right concentration, first of all we must have a sort of automation of the movements. This is why the Pilates Method must be performance in a progressive way.
Definitions of Concentration
It can be defined as the capacity as the process in which inhibit the taking of the irrelevant information and it focused the attention in the taking of the information towards the relevant (Pineda y Lopera 1997).
By Javier Solas (2006 Sports Psychology , http://www.todonatacion.com/psicologia/concentracion.php).
The capacity of paying attention is opposite / inverse proportional to the quantity of things that a person has to pay attention and directly proportional to the motivation that person is gotten.
EPILOGUE
We must teach to our loved students to be totally concentrated in their bodies, in their movements and in their breathing, that is different from the focused concentration of the body building and it is different from Yoga as well. If students want to notice the benefits of Pilates they have to understand and to keep in mind these principles at any moment.
I think some Pilates and/or sport Centers are not paying too much attention to these Vital Principles.
It can be due to different reasons, sometimes the client of one of this Sport Centers demands long classes that last too much, over the normal period a person can keep him/herself concentrated due to the cost of the classes. And another reason is that classes are overcrowded what doesn’t allow students to get the necessary individual concentration.
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