WELCOME TO OUR MONTH OF DAILY PILATES PRACTICE, following the daily videos of MVMT with Cailin.
I like the pragmatic nature of Pilates, which emphasises core strength and stability, as it originated as a specially designed form of rehabilitative exercise. So Pilates focusses on recovery, core stability and conditioning and is likely to work with repetitions and bearing less of your body weight (in general) than Yoga. As one site suggests: “Pilates is based on movement; and yoga on both pose and stillness”.
So when MVMT dropped a daily practice challenge in January this year, I was torn between it and the YWA January challenge. At that time YWA won out, with plenty of HU yogis supporting any newbies with tips and motivation. And I love the daily Yoga practice now!
But I do want to give PILATES a good a go as I did with YOGA, so this months is it!
So join me for the whole month, or pop in here and there. I am looking forward to what a dedicated month of Pilates will be going for my legs, core, back and my running. And once I return to YWA’s calendar after this month, I’m hoping to see improvements in how easy it might then feel to do various flows. We’ll see!
So here is our new virtual ‘room’ to chat all things MVMT, and I’ll pin it as well. 📌
Great session. I found the repetitions were more heat inducing than YWA. Hubby finds it easier than YWA, but he has worked out his core a lot already. I enjoyed this one!
I may try this later this evening - back from the gym, the workout was intense....( 15 calories on the rower, 20 Kettlebell swings and 10 sit ups ... repeat six times..... 😳
Yes I know it’s the 3rd but did Day 1 today as thought it would set the scene. I am a Pilates newbie but lots of the movements are like yoga which was reassuring.
Side planks are near impossible, but half planks are suggested as alternatives for some of the movements, like mermaid twists. This session is great. Hubby says he still likes YWA better, so I’m hoping he’ll stick with it. We also had problems with stuttering video, so I’ll try playing it through a diff’t device next time.
Thanks for posting this. Just tried day 1. Even though I’ve been doing Pilates for a while it was great to be reminded of the basics re the core! Hoping to carry on with the 30 day challenge.
CBDBAdministratorGraduate Gold in reply to Afshan64
Nice! I’m still a Pilates newbie so looking forward to getting used to Pilates.
I have to admit, I have to rest my legs on the floor between different exercises, but otherwise I am managing. Kind of. On my belly, lifting both legs and arms (superman stretches) are barely visible, but they’re there. Really. Sideways both-leg raises.... I’m working on that! 😂😂
Well this one was all about the glutes! And she really manages to push me to my limit. I still have to put my foot down after finishing one series of repetitions, but for the more fit of us (like hubby beside me), they can follow the instructions and move to the next series of repetitions without inbetween resting your leg in the floor.
Wowsa! 🥵
But it makes me already want to repeat the whole series of 30 days once I’m finished, as there is no way it doesn’t tone your core! And starting again should show me how much I have improved (and how much I still have yet to go!)
Great upper body workout with weird, new movements (awkward plane, anyone?). Also how upper body contributes to core. I did amend the plank push-ups to half plank push-ups, and had to again rest limbs between different sets. But this really gets my heat going!
Just tried this one and my favourite so far!! I like the way some moves were repeated from the previous videos and I'm finding it easier to follow now I'm more used to her. The awkward plane was definitely awkward and weird and not sure I did that right 🤪I loved the twisty mermaid stretch - it felt so good. These vids definitely get my heat going too!!
After a good workout in the house and garden (cleaning, weeding 🤣🤣) this workout was just perfect to get all the kinks out of my back. Nice! One plank, but also reverse planks, funny supermans and awkward dry swimming. Great new moves!
I am beginning to really like this series. Each one of these 25-30min workouts is a bit more intensive than what I am used from YWA (hubby says otherwise), but I specifically like how it builds up incrementally day by day, and moves the focus from one part of the body to another. And doing this whilst returning to known movements, but with a little alteration that specifically works out that body part that the respective episode is focussing on.
This time pelvis, and it involved bridges, planks and cat cows, but all with little alterations making you much more conscious of your pelvic muscles.
Thanks for all these posts CBDB.Unfortunately, I got an injury during my COGH final run and so only started these yesterday. I've found the first 2 sessions tougher than YWA but I really enjoyed them
Oh noooo (injury on COGH) but Yeyiiiihh (started Pilates).
Yeah, me too. Tougher but enjoyable! Let me know how you feel they develop as I certainly find there is more of a development through the series than I am used to in YWA, where each workout could theoretically be exchanged for another one. Here one workout builds on another.
Almost forgot to post yesterday’s Slow Flow Pilates workout! It was certainly slow, painfully so. Quite a few slow-motion moves I just was unable to hold that long, so I fear I was at times faster, needing a bit of momentum to sit up from lying, for instance. But boy 🥵, what a workout!
Ok, balance is not quite my thing, although I’m getting better. Squads strangely were hard on my knees, with a bit of niggling pain in certain postures, so I drew back from that as well. Hm 🤔 😞
Completed Day 11 just now. Wow, so many squats and many new twists that are not seen elsewhere. That's what I am enjoying about Pilates, every session has a surprise element!
CBDBAdministratorGraduate Gold in reply to ritu85260
Yeah! Wait till you get to know the “banana” . 😂😂Some great moves! 👍🏽😃
My ankle is still not up to running so it's great to have this series to do some work on strength and stop me feeling too sorry for myself! I've just done Days 8 and 9 and day 8 is my new favourite. I was surprised when it finished as it seemed to go quickly. I liked that most of the moves were familiar and some of it felt a little like ywa. I found the controlled roll challenging and was glad no one could see me trying to do them as there was very little control 😆 Looking forward to a stretchy day tomorrow 👍
Another future favourite one of mine. It has some planking in it, just as a warning. But it made me want to plan doing JuJu’s plankathon at some point in the next months. That means, planking seams feasible now for me, I struggle but I still plank!
We missed out a day yesterday as I was not feeling well. So now we’ll have to catch-up a day at some point.
But this session was all about back flexibility. My back: not really that flexible. Specifically slow roll ups are hard and really only doable with a belt or towel as helper. My back just doesn’t roll, and there is a section which just flops flat down when rolling down and needing a bit momentum when rolling up.
Forgot to post this yesterday. We did this last thing before going to bed (getting used to this evening practice. It’s becoming easier)
This one was one of the easier one. It felt a bit like yoga. Pinwheels were great (need a lot of space around you, though). But this stretched and flexed your back thoroughly.
I am a day behind and still have to do day 17.... uuuhhh slippery slope. But a conference I organised today got in the way of anything else. But looking forward to this for tomorrow!
Yup, we have just done this one, a real nice one. Hubby had a crick jn his neck from falling asleep on the couch, and it was all gone afterwards. For me, it was great doing it after my 8.5k run this morning!
Certainly fire-y 🔥 🔥🔥🔥 Beware of your knees, beware of planks coming left field, squats from all directions, lunges galore. 🥵🥵🥵🥵 … and my knees hurt now! 😭😡😤
Wow! This one was with weights! Hubby had heavier ones, I lighter so it was similarly hard for both of us.
There was only one amendment I needed; just as I am super-kind to my sensitive knees, I didn’t do the “sit on your heels and lift and sit back and repeat” kind of thing, but just sat cross-legged and did the arm movements.
Although my knees have gotten much better since starting daily yoga in Jan, I still can’t do pidgeon poses, or sitting on heels, or non-extended child’s pose. I’ll get there, slowly.
A real flow… a quite intensive one … but flowy. Not quite as flowy as yoga, and hubby and I both prefer either not-flowy Pilates, or full flowy Yoga, but less this kind of flowy Pilates.
But as good workout. Only one hunching on heels and one plank glow I had to amend.
Day 23: MVMT (30 min) Freedom to Flow - Pilates Full Body Workouttinyurl.com/35w2njet
A nice twisty one which feels like it will make your spine supple, but increases in heat inducing planking with twists, that leave you hot and sweaty. Well, at least it did me. Hubby did many of the movements with full plank positions whereas I opted half of the time for half planks.
Day 29: MVMT (34 min) Pilates Full Body Mat & Standing Workouttinyurl.com/3e6hd65y
This one was a doozy! Long and hot. And down on the mat and up standing. Long balance moves, such as standing figure 4s with additional moves before and after. Uff 😥.
Thank you so much for this link CBDB my hubby is keen to do a daily Pilates session similar to the YWA daily practices I do. These look just the thing. linda9389 suggested I look through your pinned posts. Perfect. Will let you know how he gets on.🤞👌xxx
Oh enjoy! MVMT has started to always drop a YouTube 30 day Pilates journey every January . This post is last year’s and was the first.
As it clashes with YWA, my hubby and I have decided to catch with her 2022 journey in the summer. So I’ll be dropping another post like this with her newest practice (her 2nd 30 day journey) sometime in the summer.
So enjoy this one. As you can probably tell, we loved it!
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