Pilates
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Anyone done any of this?<br />
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I've heard it is a good way to lose weight and tone up. My girlfriend does it using techniques she learnt off a video, so it would be something I could do with her. Not sure if it is that effective for males, plus it seems kind of feminine. I did a class of yoga once and found I was too cynical to take the spiritual stuff seriously. <br />
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I really need to improve flexibility as well, hamstrings especially. -
Yeah, all the gay dudes Voltman knows do it............ <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> You'll fit right in. heh heh!<br />
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Nah seriously though. I would give it a crack if I wasn't such a flexi tardo!! -
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I think I'll give it a go. Should be ok if I alternate it with free weights and eating steak while I score chicks and drink beer.<br />
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Some of the exercises where you lie on your back lift your legs out, my hamstrings barely extend much past 90 degrees. -
This reminds me... my best yoga experience is not when I was doing it, but there was a class running in the aerobics room while I was leg pressing.<br />
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Quite music in the background, and soft murmer of the instrictors voice, and me clanking weights on the leg press just a dividing partion wall away, you could hear everything from both sides.<br />
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The funny bit though, was when I was straining near the end of the wrolkout, working with pretty much my maximum weights, the enormous fart I let loose on the strain as I pushed the weights up.<br />
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As I was the only one in the gym lifting weights, there was no chance of pretending it was anyone else!!<br />
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Good days. Thankfully it did not smell!! -
[quote name='BartMan']This reminds me... my best yoga experience is not when I was doing it, but there was a class running in the aerobics room while I was leg pressing.<br />
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Quite music in the background, and soft murmer of the instrictors voice, and me clanking weights on the leg press just a dividing partion wall away, you could hear everything from both sides.<br />
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The funny bit though, was when I was straining near the end of the wrolkout, working with pretty much my maximum weights, the enormous fart I let loose on the strain as I pushed the weights up.<br />
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As I was the only one in the gym lifting weights, there was no chance of pretending it was anyone else!!<br />
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Good days. Thankfully it did not smell!![/quote]<br />
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Loud and proud farts are the best ones ! I remember 9 of us crammed into a car whilst we were at school and I had to end up sitting on my mates knee in the front seat, we went over a bump and as I was squashed in I had to fart.......on him. Hes a Samoan guy who I'm still great mates with to this day and thankfully he couldn't get the leverage to punch me xzxrofl <br />
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but back to Pilates, none other than TROY FLAVELL said it was an awesome conditioning exercise. -
[quote name='BartMan'][quote]but back to Pilates, none other than TROY FLAVELL said it was an awesome conditioning exercise.[/quote]<br />
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Which would have [i]nothing [/i]to do with him and Cribb owning a few pilates studios would it... eusa_think[/quote]<br />
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Well you can't argue both of them were big munters in great shape it just clearly didn't do a hell of a lot for their rugby brains..... -
Pilates is great for the core and there isn't the annoying monotone soft voice in the background when you do yoga. I've done it a couple of times while watching my wifes pilates video. You do sweat if you focus your attention on the muscle areas. <br />
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But you should still do high intensity interval cardio for losing body fat. And of course eat properly. -
[quote name='ACT Crusader']Pilates is great for the core and there isn't the annoying monotone soft voice in the background when you do yoga. I've done it a couple of times while watching my wifes pilates video. You do sweat if you focus your attention on the muscle areas. <br />
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But you should still do high intensity interval cardio for losing body fat. And of course eat properly.[/quote]<br />
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Who's doing the Vidio, I have some I copied off the TV from those OZ chicks, the wife uses all the time. Could maybe arange a swap of copies... eusa_whistle -
I've been doing Pilates for over 6 years now and would swear by it.<br />
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It's not about holding poses at all and I guarantee an instructor could leave any of you pleading for mercy. <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> <br />
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I heard a Pilates instructor on Deakers programme 1 sat talk about it being good for posture flexibility and breathing. All of which I had issues with. I ended up going elsewhere on a recommendation and it has really helped me with core strength flexibility and posture.<br />
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Like a lot of things it is all about the expertise of who you go to. I know people who have gone elsewhere and after one session have fucked their back or neck. So pays to be careful.<br />
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The video's are misleading as they focus on MAT work whcich is the closest to yoga but I do very little of that. It is more about resistance traing using a number of large expensive machines which is why the vids for home market don't feature them. Basically the video's don't refelect what I do at all.<br />
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Where I go they do a lot of work with athletes and also a lot of rehab work. My bro had a frozen shoulder following a dislocation and had been everywhere and tried everything. 3 hrs of Pilates and he was good as new.<br />
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Athletes that go where I do and swear by it include Terenzo Bozzone Tom Ashby, Hannah MacLean, Sam Warriner, Ben Fouhey and a lot of other track, swimmers weightlifters that I don't recognise.<br />
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It has really helped me now that I am back in the gym with technique and just overall structural awareness. <br />
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As you can see bit of a fanboy. -
Les Mills do a class called Body Balance which is a mix of Yoga, Pilates and Stretching. They run it at the gym here in TA. Im going to implement it once a week over summer because I need to work on my flexibility bigtime.<br />
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I went to Yoga once in Bundaberg of all places. A whole lot of chicks in the basement of a house and me. I disgraced myself by getting so relaxed I fell asleep during the warmup, then letting out a massive fart for about 20 seconds when we had to sit open legged against a wall for support. When they started their UUUUUMMMMM chants I had to leave because I lost it completely. The exercise were hard but they certainly relaxed me, I slept soundly that night (afetr ten bundy and cokes). -
[quote name='dogmeat']I've been doing Pilates for over 6 years now and would swear by it.<br />
The video's are misleading as they focus on MAT work whcich is the closest to yoga but I do very little of that. It is more about resistance traing using a number of large expensive machines which is why the vids for home market don't feature them. Basically the video's don't refelect what I do at all.[/quote]<br />
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That's interesting. The mat work was all I knew about pilates.