1. Body Benefits

Yoga: With regular yoga, you can get a sculpted upper body, followed by tighter abs. You will also have increased strength, greater flexibility, endurance and better posture.

Pilates: Pilates can help you get those dream flat abs. It also strengthens and tones your back and abdominals. It improves your posture, flexibility and balance. Pilates can also help athletes jump higher and react quicker on their feet.

2. Health Benefits

Yoga: Yoga helps lower your heart rate, eases asthma, aids sleep and relieves back and arthritis pain. It can also help you control your bad cholesterol levels and blood pressure.

Pilates: Pilates may be helpful in speeding up the recovery from injury and stabilizing the harmful effects of scoliosis. Infact, pilates first began as a form of rehabitation for dancers. People suffering from Parkinson’s disease, can also get relief with Pilates, as it exercises muscles that otherwise don’t get exercised.

3. Mental Benefits

Yoga: Yoga helps you relax and handle stress more easily. It is also known to improve memory and concentration. Yogis feel more aware, more satisfied with life and less aggresive than non-yogis.

Pilates: Pilates can help you focus your concentration. It improves attention and relieves aches and pains by raising the energy levels.

4. Helps lose weight

Yoga: With regular yoga, you can lose weight and stay in shape. People who practise Vinayasa Yoga, can burn upto 540 calories per hour.

Pilates: With pilates, you are doing bonus kegels, the pelvic-floor tightening move. This increases your core strength and balance, while maintaining your weight and toning your body.

5. Boosts Sex Life

Yoga: Another benefit common to both yoga and pilates is a hotter sex life. Since yoga releases stress, you can feel more relaxed and open while having sex.

Pilates: Since pilates strengthens your abs, back and pelvic floor, it helps enhance your sexual function and response.