I got the moves!

On monday, I was working with my instructor and decided to do some of those famous inversions.  Pretty insane really.  It is where you are on the cadillac and flip upside down in a ball shape.  Sounds easy...until you do it.  It is scary to think that if you let go, you fall on your head.  I will try to find some pics but not sure if I can online.  To say the least, my arms are STILL sore.  BY sore I mean, that I cannot press my arms back behind me, have difficulty closing the car door, really scrubbing my hair is out of the question cause after about 5 seconds with my hands above my head and my arms just give out.  I was very proud of myself but I still have a lot to work on before I am actually doing it correctly. 

Then, yesterday, I did headstands with my other instructor.  You do headstands as part of the "secret section" on the reformer, after short spine.  It was awesome.  It really makes you feel so much taller and makes you concentrate on using that belly so you won't compress the neck.  Awesome.  There is another headstand that comes next and I will hopefully get to try that when I master this headstand.  This is why I LOVE PILATES.  You think that you have learned it all and BAM! There is a whole new exercise, plus you always have something to work on as you "find" your body...

Duet Clients

I had my first client last week and really enjoyed everything.  It was a duet so at first it seemed very intimidating.  Two guys who had never done anything that resembled Pilates.  We did the mat work and some bosu ball exercises.  I noticed very tight hamstrings, limited flexibility, but they worked with me well and we got thru all of the basic 10 Pilates exercises.  After that, we did some balancing on the bosu balls, along with standing arm series on the bosu ball.  That went well, but dang, those bosu balls make you realize how unbalance we all are.  Most of us cannot "find" our feet without looking at them.  We focus a lot on feet at the studio, often doing the foot corrector or rolling the soles of the feet with tennis balls (a bitter-sweet feeling)!. 

Anyways, they duet came back yesterday, and we did tower.  I think that this went very well.  I had them doing some of the exercises that we did on the mat but this time with springs which actually help.  Still tight hamstrings and low backs so we did a lot of stretching to end the session.  Overall, we are doing great, I am feeling more comfortable "getting the correct words out" and finding the sequence while managing time.