So tonight in our pilates class we used some resistance bands which caused some amusement with them being referred to as making noises like “knicker elastic” at one stage! It certainly gave us a good upper body workout whilst strengthening the core muscles as well. The masterclass from last week on press ups has certainly paid off with people really focusing on doing their press ups correctly and as a result finding it much harder \ud83d\ude42 People who say Pilates is easy aren’t doing it correctly!<\/p>\n
Stretching with the bands led to a much better stretch, something we may start to incorporate more often to help increase flexibility.<\/p>\n
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