ucantdoitdoggieSTyle2 wrote:missjo wrote:I do 3 private 45 min clinical Pilates + powerplate then head to the gym to do 20 min of cardio on the Bike or Eliptical.
So. You stretch (Pilates

) for 45 minutes, then do 20 minutes of cardio? You should think about reversing that. In fact. How about you put down the Bon-Bons and do 60 minutes of cardio and fuck stretching altogether?
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Clinical Pilates you Numbnut, is one of the most physically demanding things I've done & I used to be a rower, soccer player & Gymnast as a teenager.
It's mostly apparatus based, try doing squats on a powerplate set on high vibration were you have to stay in the zone where your muscles aren't allowed to rest & we'll see how you do, it also uses the reformer, Horse, chair of doom as I like to call it & the Cadillac which look a little like something you would see in a hard core sex dungeon, doing sit ups & pull ups while suspended in weird positions is not "easy stretching fun" & my instructor is a sadist, there are times where I go to sit down after a class where I scream because my glutes have been worked so hard that it's agony to sit down, instead of using free weights clinical pilates uses a spring based resistance system which as given me really firm muscles that don't bulge like a body builders & I've gone from not being able to do one pushup to 60 in a row followed buy holding in plank position till my instructor thinks I'm about to faceplant.

This is the chair of doom one of my latest achievements was to be able to do the "elephant"
insert fat joke here
whereby my hands are placed on the top of the box then I basically pull myself up into a handstand position using my ab muscles to pull my legs up in a forward motion so I'm in a forward handstand arch over the box
it takes both strength & balance I'd love to see you attempt it .
Clinical Pilates is brilliant for strength & tone but for cardiovascular fitness I had to add cardio at the gym as well once my initial weightloss plateaued & I needed to kick it up a notch