Stay motivate people! We can do this

Good luck on recovering PilotGal!

I'm about to pop in my dvd and do some pilates. I want to feel sore!! I think what I'm going to do is pause the tape after each move, and do a few more reps. Maybe increase this stuff to like 30 minutes. After that I'll do some time on my treadmill. I hope this works!!

Join me in, actually today is the second day I tried doing Winsor Pilates, and I am on my 8th day of the induction diet. I can really feel the muscles in my legs and abs burning. Please join me in. I want to lose weight and tone my body by Christmas!!! Count me in!!!

Welcome Jaliah!! Good luck on keeping up the pilates!

Alright people, I just finished the 20 minute pilates workout, plus a couple of extra moves. I said I was going to do the treadmill, and I did, I just had no stamina. I did 2 one minute interals at 6.8mph, and that's it. I just had no motivation to run. I'm really starting to love mat work and everything else seems blah. Since I stopped weight training, my arms are getting flabbier. Are they any exercises with pilates that work arms?

Hey, KiwiGal! This is a really good question! Did you find anything in that book about the arms?

Day two and I am sore! I am so excited about this challenge!

Ive just finished my 20 minute pilates AND a 50 minute "shaping up with weights for dummies".so at the moment, my arms are really feeling it!! Plus when i went down 3 steps to the garden...my knees almost went!! so i must've worked them today!
I just assumed that the arms would get a workout with pilates...those women on the dvds look fine!!...are there no arm exercises on the dummies pilates missScruff?
I'll check in the library book...but if someone else who is experienced at pilates can help out here...nows the time to speak up!

P.S...my rolling is improving!!

Hee hee!

Did my Yoga this morning but saving the Pilates for when my daughter gets home from school. She wants to do it with me .. I know her, she just wants to watch me roll into somthing again .. Lil drill sargent wants to make sure I don't cheat,HAH.. So evening Pilates it is.

Angel

I did 30 mintues of a 45 minutes tape yesterday and I'm really feelin' it today. I managed to get in the last 15 mintues but I just couldn't make myself do another 15 right then. My arms are like jello and my upper legs are crying here. Those Pilates squats are killers. I have always had fairly muscular legs due to ice skating when I was younger and perhaps partly due to my german genes as well.

My tape doesn't have any rolling so I think I will buy the Widsor Pilates tapes and then I can switch them up for a change. I want to too!

I also did 30 situps and I am going to do another 15 of the Pilates around 3pm when I start to get alittle tired. I'm hoping it will give me a boost of energy to get through the rest of the night.

This was a great idea!

Satus: Day 2 and *feelin' the burn*

2/2. Did the beginner workout again last night which makes me 2 for 2 days since I joined the challenge - yeah! I took measurements also yesterday and hope to join all you in losing inches.

Count me in. I only have the Pilates for Dummies DVD. I did it for a couple days and it felt good. I felt retarded. My daughter would ask me everyday, "Are you gonna do your exercise tonight"? Seems I was her "entertainment". She couldn't stop laughing at me! Anyway, I'll start with that one for about 2 weeks, then "upgrad" to the Windsor DVD.

LOL! Who has hollows?! (OK, maybe some day soon.)

This thread is very timely. Early this week I received two DVDs: Pilates Workout for Dummies and Classical Pilates Technique - The Complete Mat Workout Series (Modified Basic / Basic / Intermediate / Advanced / Super Advanced). I also ordered the book, Pilates: Body in Motion so I could be really sure of the moves.

I have watched both DVDs twice and read through the book once. While I am skeptical that Pilates will significantly change my body (I'm used to doing that through lifting heavy weights), I am ready to give it a committed try.

FWIW, the Pilates Method Alliance (the true Classical method as taught by Joseph Pilates and then his successor Romana Kryzanowska) recommends working out only 2-3 times a week for an hour each time.

If I get really committed to this and like it as much as I think I will, I promise to buy myself the Raised Platform Mat for my birthday in March!

I'm in for Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

LOL, so many funny things to read today about rolling and people watching you roll!

So do any of you think that it's actually possible to lose weight on Pilates? or does it have to be incorporated with some type of other exercise? I have only 15 lbs left to lose, so I'm kinda just wondering here. what do the rest of you think?

Have a great day everyone! I'm off to work now

I sure hope we will lose weight doing this! The pilates dvd I have is geared to weight loss! It is called Pilates for Dummies: Weight Loss Workout and I sure hope it is true to it's name! I noticed Kiwigal is doing other exercises so she would probably be the best one to answer! I need to get in there and do my pilates for today! I am really dragging...must be the lack of sunlight we have right now! Sounds like everyone is doing great! Someone said something about recording our measurements and I have been trying to think of a way to do that withough recording every body part! How about we measure our chest, under the chest, waist, hips, both thighs and both biceps? Add them all together and start from there? Then when inches are lost we would subtract the total lost from the starting point! For instance, I measured before I began Induction and then about 5 weeks later and had lost a total of 24 inches all over. What do you all think? I would love to avoid the scales because they won't be an accurate indicator of change in our bodies! The scales haven't moved a bit for me yet I kept losing inches (not after I hit 21 pounds off that is)!

I would love to get the Winsor Pilates as soon as I get back to work! Until then I will use the Dummies version! They really explain things though and I love that! I have Pilates Conditioning for Weight Loss, which I bought a few years ago at Wal-Mart, but to be hones...it was hard to follow! I feel it focused on people that already had a good idea of how to do pilates and she was confusing! Maybe after I do the Dummies version I will be able to handle her! I am keeping an eye out at Goodwill for Winsor! Hey, you never know! Anyhow, I'd better get in there and exercise!

hey everyone! today I was determined to do something good for my body. upper chest is still sore from those extreme twists I was doing.. LOL.

now i understand what they mean by harmony. i got down on the floor and started slowly. my body and my brain worked together and I stretched and pulled and gave myself a real nice workout. felt really good. this is going to be a most enjoyable challenge.

I feel so good afterwards.

really glad we started this thread.

Great idea about the measuring MissScruff! I think I'm gonna have to pick up the Pilates For Dummies too. I saw it at Wal Mart so it'll be good to throw a little variety in there From what I saw on the cover, it seems like there are a bunch of standing moves. I'm assuming that that can definitely make you sore the next day!

Thanks for keeping me motivated everyone