Pilates

[AlanW]

I've just done my very first Pilates class and loved it! After my spinal surgery two years ago the consultant suggested that I should join a few classes and get more mobile, and what did I do about it.......ye, absolutely nothing at all!!

But as the warmer weather is approaching I have started to do a few longer rides, 100 miles plus. But my poor back has been aching well before the half way point! So it was about time to be more proactive and join a local Pilates class, with the first one being this morning.

Being the only bloke in a class of 20+ women was rather overwhelming to say the very least! But needless to say, I was made very welcome and really enjoyed it.

Quite how some of those women bent like that is utterly beyond me, I had more than enough trouble just getting up of the mat at the end....

 

[AndyRM]

Pilates is great!

There's no science that it actually works, but from personal experience, and that of others, it's not a bad thing.

 

[AlanW]

Totally agree, should have started years ago when l was told to!

 

[wafter]

It's basically a load of stretching, isn't it?

I can see how that could be massively beneficial - I've found dead hangs to be great for my back and a few stretches I may or may not have made up myself good for keeping the crampy glutes / hamstrings at bay.

From your description of the classes they sound well worth investigating though... you know - for science.

 

[AlanW]

It's basically a load of stretching, isn't it?

I can see how that could be massively beneficial - I've found dead hangs to be great for my back and a few stretches I may or may not have made up myself good for keeping the crampy glutes / hamstrings at bay.

From your description of the classes they sound well worth investigating though... you know - for science.

I never thought you could do so much with a large green inflatable ball and a hoop!

 

[wafter]

I never thought you could do so much with a large green inflatable ball and a hoop!

Crikey!