Another garbled week.
Monday’s class started a new killer routine. I am having to come up with modifications for some things that bother my hypermobility — two in particular are using an elastic band and doing legwork with an exercise ball.
We use the band for two different segments. In one, we wrap it around a fixed bar and do lawn-mower-starting movements — that’s not bad. In another, we’re holding onto both ends and flinging fingers up at the ceiling, down at the floor, front and back, side and front, etc, very quickly. Most folks can wrap the band once around their hand to keep hold of it for this part, but that really hurts my deeper thumb muscles. I might just have to do that part without the band.
I can do most of the mat and ball exercises, but there’s some where your heels are on the ball and you’ve got to do various things with your legs while your pelvis is lifted off the mat. That makes my knees want to bend backwards and is very painful. So I am working on modifications for those. I’m not sure that what I’m doing instead is working the same bits, but it’s still good.
Wednesday’s Pilates was canceled due to snow, and I missed Friday spinning (again! I’ve missed all but one) because we were out of town. I did my Pilates Sculpt DVD on Thursday, instead.
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