Sometimes it’s easier to stick to your workout plans if you have a partner to be held accountable to. So tonight call a friend or two and make plans for some kind of workout or physical activity on Saturday. Call another friend for Sunday.
You can plan to go hiking together or just take a walk. Or look for a fun exercise class you’ve felt intimated to try. Going with a friend will make it easier. Make being active fun by doing it with friends and picking movements you like.
Remember, Pilates is designed to help you prepare your body for the movement it faces in life on a daily basis. Try to consider your body and how it moves today.
We are scared to move our bodies; scared to look stupid or silly. So we often hold our bodies in, limbs close to our sides, heads down facing the dirt. Our bodies were meant to move, meant to look silly, meant to squirm.
Think of a child who can’t sit still. We berate them, but they are just doing want the body wants to do: move, until for potentially beneficial reasons for society we drill the freedom, comfort, and ease of movement out of them.
We are all a little scared to move freely, but if we can release some of our ego, movement will become easier. We need to stop worrying about how we look and let the body move more like children.
Think about moving and holding still the next time you do the following exercises:
The 100: You move your arms, but try not to move the rest of you body, espeically the rest of the upper body.
Leg Circles: You move your leg in the hip socket, but try not to let the opposite side of you pelvis lift.
Spinal Rotation: You twist at the spine without letting your hips move with you.
Can you think of another exercise in Pilates that requires you to move and hold still at the same time?
