Pilates

My pilates course this morning did not go as well as it usually does. I had a hard time keeping my balance and kept rolling over when we were on the side-kick series. Our instructor Christine said that my tummy muscles are being stretched and I have to learn how to use them differently. I didn’t have this problem last week! Luckily we’re a small group and she can help me modify the movements. There’s another American in the course who did pilates for all nine months of her pregnancy and claims it saved her from the lower-back pain everyone warns you about. I've heard the same claims for water aerobics but I'm a bit less motivated to look like a beached whale at the public pool.