Pilates

Having tried out yoga last Friday and Sunday, I decided to throw caution to the wind and try pilates this evening. There were only five of us today plus the teacher. I got all the movements wrong as I was focusing on flatening and lowering my tummy to the ground while breathing.

A lot of movements seemed like a modified crunch with the legs up in the air whilst flapping your arms rapidly mixed in with short quick breaths. I realised that I wasn't performing the movements properly when we were perfomring a move where lying on our back, we would bring out knees toward our torso and reaching out with our arms to form a craddle. We were then supposed to roll forward and backward. It felt as if my midsection was dead weight and I found myself drawing from other muscle groups to move myself.

I felt pretty tired afterward even though I didn't break a sweat. Overall not as physically demanding as power yoga but if I were to practise, I could benefit from it. Time will tell