Sorry that I hadn't thought about sharing this earlier! Yes, I plan to do it using Joe's "Return to Life" as my guide (and modifying the heck out of some of the more challenging ones...)
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Are you planning to do a challenge for March Matness, Liz (Pilates for Runners) ? Someone on a NHS Health Unlocked forum reminded me of this event initiated by Benjamin Degenhardt over 10 years ago, although it seems to have taken on a life of its own now... It involves doing one (or two) of the exercises of the classical Mat sequence (see photo montage of Degenhardt doing them). More info is here: https://marchmatness.com/
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Feb 12 at 05:46 PM
I still find the exercises valuable. The idea of March Matness is exactly that: To revisit the roots of the Pilates system... Although I agree that a lot has changed in our lives and so it makes sense to adapt the system. I am finding, for example, that there's too little focus on the upper body to counter our hunched postures...
Though maybe not as much has changed as we think? At least according to Natalie Petrzela's take in her book "Fit Nation," there was quite an angst going around Joe Pilates' time (post-WWI) that (white) men were getting too sedentary... The worry was that they wouldn't be able to fight anymore if they'd get fat from their desk jobs... It's a fascinating history (and now I want to dig more into her book again...).