Retrofit Pilates

Spring has arrived. How lovely! With longer days and rising temperatures though, comes the nagging realization that pretty soon we will be shedding our warm-weather clothes, and before long, getting into a bathing suit.

Spring is a great time for the diet and fitness industry to shame us into short-term crazes that promise 8-weeks to blast your belly fat and get your bikini-body by summer! I was speaking to a friend recently about a fabulous Canadian swimwear company I had just discovered (leftonfriday.com). She told me she really liked the suits but didn’t want to order anything until she was further along on her weight-loss journey.

I don’t think I have ever met a woman who is not on a weight-loss journey.

One of the best things about leading Pilates teacher training programs is that I am constantly immersed in the most recent, science based evidence about Pilates specifically, and fitness and health generally. We spend a lot of time in the teacher training courses discussing and debunking outdated ideas about Pilates, fitness and health including the greatest myths of the diet and fitness industry. Restrictive eating and hardcore cardio do not result in weight management or better health. You do not need to earn your food.

Consistent, daily movement that increases your muscular strength, cardiovascular endurance, mobility and mental health is the only successful path to long-term health and weight management.

And you’re doing it! You are showing up to class as often as you can and bringing the most that you can. You’re walking more, sleeping better, deepening your mind-body connection, trying new things and being kind to yourself and to each other.

Increased strength and fitness is your friend.
Movement heals.
Community matters.

Here’s the thing. If you have a body and you put a bikini on it, you have bikini body.

Keep up the good work. ~Barbara

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