The present study demonstrated that Pilates-based exercise may slightly
enhance the psychological well-being of healthy women, measured by life
satisfaction, physical self-concept, and perception of health status. Pilatesbased
exercise among healthy women during the initial 3-month period (60-
minute sessions twice per week) may not have been of sufficient duration
to promote significant increases in the health outcome variables studied.
However, after 6 months, the women in the experimental group did exhibit
a slight significant improvement in life satisfaction, as well as in the three
dimensions of physical self-concept, the total physical self-concept, and the
perception of health status, when compared with those who participated in
the CG.