Pilates

When I first saw ‘Pilates’ on the gym schedule, I thought it was pronounced ‘pie-lates’ but it’s not. It’s pronounced ‘pee-lah-tays’ just an fyi for those of you who are in the same boat I was. Ok onto my review:

I have a long relationship with Pilates. I’ve seen close and personal friends of mine transform their entire body with a strong comittment to Pilates, and so I have also decided to slowly incorporate the sessions into my life. When my BFF gave me her Windsor Pilates dvd set, I instantly fell in love with the 20 minute workout, which is what I used for the first few months. As I gained familiarity with the titles of movements, I realized a few things about myself. I have absolutely NO core strength, and if this was the case, then how was I ever going to actually go to a class and participate when I can’t even keep up with a video??

Three years later, I finally attended my first 2 Pilates class, and with two completely different structures. I have found that Windsor pilates is probably the best format of all three, instruction and pace wise. The Pilates class at the gym is more like a power-pilates-get-your-ass-in-gear-do-it-like-i-say-or-your-ass-is-grass format, while the pilates class at BodyWorks Studio is calm, relaxing, challenging, yet zen, but not much instruction on the moves.

Either way, I still think that Winsor Pilates is the best of the best, and am so glad that I have it in my life