three times a week for 12 weeks.
Every training session lasted for 40 min.
Pilates period was planned and conducted by an expert Pilates trainer.
Training sessions included 8 Pilates exercises. Participants performed three sets of 6–10 repetitions with 30 s active rest (stretching) for each Pilates exercise.
In the first and last 5 min of training sessions, stretching exercise was done for warm-up and cool-down.