Pilates

I have been doing pilates now for two weeks, and to me it really focuses on your abs. Every thing you do, you are supposed to shrink those abs down to your spine. Takes awhile to get used to how they want you to breath , you are supposed to breath through your ribs not your chest. What I mean is they want you not to raise your chest up and down to breath but through your side. I like the exercises that you use the resistance band, I can feel it in my arms especially. I have been doing yoga and pilates for a little over a month and a half now, hopefully I am starting to firm up a bit. The nice thing about yoga and pilates is that it is not very hard on your body, and you can do most all the poses. I still prefer my yoga over the pilates, but will alternate between the two. The yoga helps to focus, calm, breath, and the pilates helps with the toning.