As wellness practices today, yoga and Pilates are both celebrated for their numerous health benefits, from offering connection to the body and stress relief, to developing flexibility, strength, control and endurance.

Weight training is an undisputed winner here. With Pilates, you typically build lean and strong muscles, but it is not an appropriate form of exercise for gaining bulky arms or legs. As weight training involves lifting heavy weights at low or high intensity, you can gain muscular and bulkier body form.

Pilates is a form of strength training, but it doesn't look like some of the other strength training exercises you might be familiar with. Pilates focuses more on improving muscle tone than building muscles, but the result is similar: greater stability and endurance.

Unlike traditional Pilates reformer workouts, which isolate specific muscles individually with faster and lighter reps and longer breaks between exercises, SLT workouts on the Megaformer involve performing deliberately slow movements that use many muscles simultaneously with no rest time between exercises.