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[kaberett]

Pilates, today, at home; a full set of core stabilisation exercises from One Of The books, which I didn't get all the way through on the previous attempt, adapted as appropriate.

I'm grumbly about needing to modify exercises along multiple axes, but have at least (I think) now identified all the axes, such that in future working out why instructions are impossible to follow should be faster.

I think the major subsidiary achievement of the day (secondary to having engaged in a movement practice at all) is probably that I think I managed to actually get each exercise targeting the appropriate muscles for at least one repetition: there's a bunch of stuff around body-awareness in terms of proprioception I routinely find pretty difficult, especially keeping my body in alignment when I can't see it, so having got everything approximately-right at least once I'm hoping that I'll manage to remember how it feels enough to need less trial-and-error next session.

Which will probably be in about a week's time, though we'll see how the Spatzen go; in general with this sort of work I'm aiming to get back to my "baseline normal" before doing another set, and Pilates in specific has this weird habit of not feeling much like exercise as such while I'm actually doing it, only to wake up the next day and go "... I... apparently... I have muscles. huh. ... can I opt out?" -- so.

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[jesse_the_k]

Also dinking around with my Pilates-like exercise routine, and it's really hard to juggle proprioception (aslant) and memory (where did it go) and translating written notes to body movement and.....

[sporky_rat]

Brent and I were talking proprioception the other day, he's learning how all sorts of very tiny movements that he doesn't realize he's making transmits information to the horse he's riding.

It's a little weird to find out that he has no concept of where his body is or what it's doing or even how to identify where it hurts except in a general area.

And I'm over here, the graduate of comportment and poise and 'grace' lessons and riding, that's a thing, but also if I don't move this muscle I don't hurt being very very confused.

Is this what life is like for people who don't hurt all the time?

[vass]

here's a bunch of stuff around body-awareness in terms of proprioception I routinely find pretty difficult, especially keeping my body in alignment when I can't see it, so having got everything approximately-right at least once I'm hoping that I'll manage to remember how it feels enough to need less trial-and-error next session.

This is very similar to what I'm working on with my exercise physiology sessions, both in terms of what I struggle with and what seems to be helping. I often find with the current abdominal exercise that I'll start to remember how it works (i.e. what part of my body these "abdominal muscles" of which we speak are located in) in the last few reps of the first set. Fortunately, there is more than one set.