The Workout Everyone Thinks Is Pilates…Until They Take It
We talk a lot about the results our clients get at Core (LP).
We talk about getting stronger. Building muscle. Improving core strength. Supporting your running. Training without beating up your joints. Feeling better in your body.
But what actually…is the workout? Maybe you’ve looked at our machines and assume you know what you're getting.
It's a reformer, so it's Pilates. And if it's Pilates, it can't really be strength training. Right?
Wrong.
This is one of the biggest misconceptions I hear, and I think it's worth explaining exactly what we're doing when you walk into a Core (LP) session.
Because yes, it looks different from traditional strength training.
But different doesn't mean less effective.
Why Continuing To “Think About It” Is Keeping you Stuck
There is a group of people I see all the time in fitness.
They are researching.
They're comparing.
They're reading reviews, saving Instagram posts, asking their friends what they do, looking at class schedules, wondering whether Pilates-inspired strength training will work for them, wondering whether it will be too hard, wondering whether they need to lose weight before they start, wondering whether they should lift weights instead...
And six months later, they're still thinking about it.
Meanwhile, there is another group of people who started. They weren't particularly confident. They didn't know what they were doing during the first 5-10 sessions. They missed classes. They had weeks where their nutrition was a mess. They had busy work weeks and stressful family weeks and vacations and weekends where they ate too much and moved too little. They didn't do it perfectly. They just kept coming back.
And those are the people I watch change.