Pilates for beginners

[Astrolady]

We do pilates at our school with a pilates instructor. I ended up giving up cause I can't get the breathing right or the right muscles to work etc LOL. I would just end up laughing at myself which wasn't very helpful to the others who would then laugh too.

[Mother Goose]

Hehe sounds fun Katherine!

MR i do have phi... i will look into that option!

[~Raven~]

LOL Kat I was so unco at it too!

I know it's a bit exxy but you will really benefit from doing a couple of lessons to learn the proper technique to get the benefit of the excercises. I thought I knew what I was doing from the DVD but OMG I was so far from doing it properly I went to a physio in Berwick and I think there is also a pilates studio that gives one on one lessons.

The DVD I got came from target with a book.

[Laranna]

Definitely see a physio who knows about pilates. That's how I got into it. Was seeing a physio for a lower back injury and she worked with me on basic core muscle movements as I wasn't even strong enough to start in a beginners pilates class. Then once I was good she referred me to a pilates studio where I had a couple of semi-private (only 4 students, makes it cheaper) sessions on the reformers and then moved to the floor classes. That was about 4 years ago and have been doing it once a week ever since (apart from having a few months off after DS was born ).