Posted on 03/26/2023 6:46:34 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Jen Renfroe, senior vice president of group fitness for the Crunch Fitness gym chain, says that over the past two years, more men have taken Pilates-based classes as a complement to their traditional strength-based or high-intensity interval workouts.
“There’s an unspoken bond when you see another guy in the studio,” he says. “It’s like we’re in on this secret workout that makes you strong and feel good. But with more men, especially athletes, finally talking about how great it is, I don’t think it will stay a secret that much longer.”
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Fifteen she said... THREE SETS!
And again with feet close together. NINETY-DEEP KNEE BENDS, OH MY!!!
She still fits in her wedding gown from forty years back. Sadly all my old uniforms were shrunken by global warming.
What is this?
Something from a strange dimension.
And now gone???
As men from the Prefontaine 1970’s running boom age on the lazy boy, they should try the excellent body muscle knowledge of Pilates because many women in their 80’s are benefiting enormously.
Pilates seems very similar to barre routines.
I am opening a masculine shop called Pontius Pilates... punch us Pilates.
One wonders - what color yoga pants does a dude wear to pilates class?
I’ll stick with the prison body weight workout routine.
-—”1970’s running boom age on the lazy boy, they should try the excellent body muscle knowledge of Pilates because many women in their 80’s are benefiting enormously.”
TRUE!
BUT,but,but...
My wife assures me that she is still a spring chicken! And probably not even close to eighty???
—”One wonders - what color yoga pants does a dude wear to pilates class?”
A speedo?
I took a class on a dare, my takeaway is that I don’t think Pilates was constructed for the male skeletal system, especially the pelvis. It was actually quite painful in the lumbar afterwards. I was in good condition back then.
Another dare I took was to attend a jazzercise class which is a hyped up step class with a Beat. I actually liked it and since it was in a small industrial park less than a mile from my house it was closer than any other place I could go to and crack a sweat, I became a member. The classes were huge the sound system was top shelf and it was a really good workout. I was soaked in sweat after every one of them.
There was 5 or 6 other guys in there, I was the incorrigible one in the back row with my sunglasses on... 😎
Quarterly luncheons were fantastic social get togethers. I really enjoyed that class.
That’s my pet peeve with this whole thing.
Why do we have to say “pih-laht-ees” while Jesus’ judge is called “Pilot”? They’re spelled the same exactly!
Plus, not sure I want to participate in something with the same name!
Sounds good to me.
—”There was 5 or 6 other guys in there, I was the incorrigible one in the back row with my sunglasses on... 😎”
I have heard similar tales from my unmarried pals, surveying the landscape.
One has not missed a day in years of spin class and has a few nice road bikes, rollers, and a spin bike at home?
The Joseph Pilates Story
Joseph Pilates was born near Düsseldorf, Germany in 1883. Little is known about his early life, but he appears to have been a frail child, suffering from asthma, rickets and rheumatic fever. His drive and determination to overcome these ailments led him to become a competent gymnast, diver and skier.
In 1912 Pilates lived in England working as a circus performer, boxer and self-defence instructor. During the First World War, he was interned with other German nationals. During this time he developed his technique of physical fitness further, by teaching his fellow internees. During the latter part of the War, he served as an orderly in a hospital on the Isle of Man where he worked with patients unable to walk. He attached bed springs to the hospital beds to help support the patients’ limbs, leading to the development of his famous piece of equipment known as the ‘Cadillac’. Much of his equipment, although slightly adapted, is still in use today in many Pilates Studios.
Pilates emigrated to the USA in the early 1920s with his wife Clara, and together they developed and taught the method in their ‘body-conditioning gym’ in New York in 1926.
No, we don’t.
It couldn’t possibly have anything to do with the babes in yoga pants, could it?
Weight lifting is better in every respect, even for women in their 80s.
Ha ha ha ha. Just, ha ha ha ha.
Pilates and viagra. Sheese.
Pulling on piles sounds like a very unpleasant thing indeed.
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