I learned a lot from Charles Poliquin in the late 1990′s.
That was before he started making a bunch of weird claims about how belly button rings disrupt body composition by “interfering” with the acupuncture meridian, that eating only Dominican Republic foods helped him lose 3 pounds of fat and gain 14 pounds of muscle in 5 days, and that anyone who wants to gain muscle and lose fat should be on 30-45 grams of fish oil per day.
However, he’s right on the money with this comment about Pilates…
While you have to give credit to a person participating in any form of exercise on a regular basis, the claims that some Pilates instructors make about their form of training are overrated. Pilates is not an effective way to lose weight. Pilates is not an effective way to “tone” — whatever that means — your muscles. And no, Pilates will not make your muscles longer, because if it did, the resulting slack that would occur in your joints would make it difficult to perform any task — you’d be like one of those boneless chickens that can’t walk because, obviously, their muscles don’t have any bones to pull against.
That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do Pilates. All forms of exercise have their strengths and weaknesses. Just don’t buy into the bizarre claims made by some Pilates instructors.
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