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Jul. 9th, 2020 10:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaberettPilates, 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.
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.