Open leg rocker
Pilates can be up and down. Some weeks I find it really hard and I long for the end. Other times I get a kick out of it.
Tonight wasn’t too bad. I seemed a bit more supple than usual and had more stamina. I’m also – as you’d rather hope after almost a year of going – noticeably better than when I started. The moves do get more streamlined over time.
Take, for example, open leg rocker (pictured above). I found this really difficult when I first started nearly a year ago. You sit upright on the mat, legs up and out – straight in a high V shape, holding your ankles / shins. You rock back doing a semi-backward roll – then get yourself back into upright in a smooth action. I can do it quite smoothly now and hold form without wobbling or toppling.
My goal is still to supplement pilates (which we get free at work) by re-joining a gym. I want to get back on track by running and doing other cardio and free weights again. Hopefully soon.
I thought “open leg rocker” was a description of some slightly naughty rock star. ‘Tis clear that a) I know little about pilates and b) I have a smutty mind.
Daphne
October 27, 2009 at 10:14 pm
LOL at Daphne.
At first glance I thought it said ‘One Leg Rocker’ which made me very curious as the chap quite clearly has two.
mancais
October 27, 2009 at 11:13 pm
And I’ve given you a tag thing.
mancais
October 27, 2009 at 11:44 pm
oh my …. is that a position for exercise or pleasure ???
Paul
October 28, 2009 at 5:49 am
Daphne – LOL!
Mancais – ah, I’ll check it out.
Paul – hehehe. Agree it looks quite karma sutra like.
Milo
October 28, 2009 at 10:54 pm
That guy in the pictura is bizarro. Is he a real person or computer-born?
josh
October 29, 2009 at 4:39 am
No offence to any German readers (if I have any!) but this pic was, I seem to recall, from a German website… hence the somewhat ‘rather serious Germanic man’ look.
Milo
October 29, 2009 at 9:21 am