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You might know Pilates as an exercise program that delivers long, lean muscles and a particularly strong core. The program uses 50 different exercises to boost muscle strength and endurance as well as to enhance balance, flexibility, and posture, according to previous research.

“Pilates has a positive effect on the health of most of the voluntary muscles [skeletal muscles you control] of the body, predominantly the larger muscles,” says Vedant Vaksha, MD, a spine surgeon with Complete Orthopedics in Long Island, New York. “It helps in stretching and strengthening muscles of the forearm, arm, neck and back, hips, thighs, and legs.”

But it can also deliver some other lesser known benefits, and ones you may not notice when looking in the mirror. Here are seven health benefits associated with Pilates.