Thing #5 Fitness Pilates Class

I went to a whole other class! (An aside – “nother” is not a word. As in “a whole nother”.) This one I felt more comfortable going to because I’d already been to one and it dawned on me that any time a club has a class, they’ve got to handle people at all experience levels. This time the teacher was a sub, and even though I introduced myself as a complete Pilates novice at the beginning she was friendly but didn’t offer much by way of helpful initial instruction. She gave lots of it as the class moved along, though, and I could see that she was checking on me as it went, so I felt OK about the whole experience.

Pilates is really about strengthening “the core”, or the group of muscles down near the base of the belly and the back. Fine. I’ve done some of that with The Trainer. It was interesting to see what was hard – anything involving holding my neck up or my neck up and my legs in the air, hello.

As with yoga, I was glad not to be competitive. Frankly, on some of the moves (especially the ab work later in the class) I might’ve worked harder. But I didn’t want to push it too hard the first time. I am big, big believer is setting myself up for success, and starting slowly is part of that. Plus, I can be lazy. It’s why I hired a trainer in the first place.

I expected to be really sore the next day, and it wasn’t too bad. It was an ok class, and I’ll try it again, but since I do a lot of strength work with The Trainer, I’d rather focus on cardio and flexibility in these other workouts.