Pilates

Why does pilates seem so expensive?
You probably wouldn’t decide to take up tennis and just show up on the court with a ball and racquet and expect to have much success. Pilates is similar and until you have tried pilates a couple of times, you may not realize how it is an acquired skill, like ice skating or surfing. Pilates on it’s own is confusing enough (”like dancing on your back” according to absolution instructor Margie Allman), and if you add the apparatus, fuggetaboudit. In order to capitalize on all the benefits a pilates regime brings, you have to be willing to be coached for a while first. One of the coolest things about pilates is that you don’t have to understand it to reap the rewards; you just have to do it, and that is where a personal coach comes in very handy, especially in the beginning. If you were to walk in to a pilates studio and try to figure out how to hold your body at the same time that you were trying to figure out the machines that look like medieval torture equipment, you would end up as frustrated as the tennis player without a racquet.

In order to acquire the skills to change your body dramatically, one on one coaching is simply the best. A qualified instructor (and there are some out there that are not) can coach you, not to mention motivate you, with subtle techniques and adjustments to make your workouts truly effective.

Once you know what you are doing, the practice of pilates itself doesn’t have to be expensive, in fact, all you need to practice pilates is enough room to stretch out on the floor and get busy. So the good news is, once you absorb the techniques and subtleties of pilates principles, you will be able to perpetuate a lot on your own, which costs nada.