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The Impacts of Pilates and Yoga on Health-Promoting Behaviors and Subjective Health Status

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  • Eun-Ju Lim

    (Department of Exercise Rehabilitation & Welfare, Gachon University, Incheon 21936, Korea)

  • Eun-Jung Hyun

    (Department of Business, Hongik University, Seoul 04066, Korea)

Abstract

This study investigates whether Pilates and yoga lead people to adopt generally health-promoting lifestyle elements and feel better about their physical and mental fitness. To this end, we designed an 8 week exercise program of Pilates and yoga reviewed by veteran practitioners and conducted an experimental study through which we collected the data from 90 volunteered adult subjects between ages 30 and 49 (mean age = 35.47), equally represented by women and men without previous experience with Pilates or yoga. In the 8 week long experiment, we assigned the subjects to three groups, where subjects in the two exercise groups regularly took part in either Pilates or yoga classes, and the control group participated in neither exercise classes. All participants completed two surveys, the Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile (HPLP II) and the Health Self-Rating Scale (HSRS), before and after their assigned program. In our analysis of pre- and post-treatment differences across the three groups, we ran ANOVA, ANCOVA, and Sheffé test, implemented using SPSS PASW Statistics 18.00. Our results indicate that Pilates and yoga groups exhibited a higher engagement in health-promoting behaviors than the control group after the program. Subjective health status, measured with HSRS, also improved significantly among Pilates and yoga participants compared to those in the control group after the program. The supplementary analysis finds no significant gender-based difference in these impacts. Overall, our results confirm that Pilates and yoga help recruit health-promoting behaviors in participants and engender positive beliefs about their subjective health status, thereby setting a positive reinforcement cycle in motion. By providing clear evidence that the promotion of Pilates or yoga can serve as an effective intervention strategy that helps individuals change behaviors adverse to their health, this study offers practical implications for healthcare professionals and public health officials alike.

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  • Eun-Ju Lim & Eun-Jung Hyun, 2021. "The Impacts of Pilates and Yoga on Health-Promoting Behaviors and Subjective Health Status," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(7), pages 1-23, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:18:y:2021:i:7:p:3802-:d:530614
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