Who Said One is Better than the Other?

Some people have a preference for yoga over pilates, but they both promote heart health, weight loss, strength and flexibility. Yoga provides little cardio benefit as it is a slower performed exercise whereas pilates kicks up your heart rate as your body feels the burn. As for weight loss, both pilates and yoga are beneficial, but in a 50 minute yoga class you will burn 150 calories and in a 50 minute pilates class you will burn 175 calories. Yoga helps a person with their flexibility and pilates helps challenge a persons strength with flexibility added in the mix. It's up to you which work out to try, but I have added two of my favorite YouTube yoga and pilates videos for you to try. Please comment and let me know which you prefer!

I prefer a pilates workout when I have the energy, but when I want to relax I do yoga.