Thread by @StewartalsopIII

A #stablethread on Pilates. To see the thread on my learnings for movement in general please see the following link:

https://twitter.com/StewartalsopIII/status/1230171410183544832

What I'm really enjoying about Pilates so far is it's distinct lack of "super-spirituality" and its entire focus on the human body and its interaction with various props. I've found that traditional Yoga is more about destroying this idea that we are just the body.

Paradoxically, pilates is more realistic about just training the body in order to live a happy and healthy life as opposed to modern yoga which celebrates the sensuality of the body and traps us into mere sensuality while pretending to be "super-spiritual", look at Instagram

Here is Tom displaying a movement. Apparently, the goal of pilates is to connect our extremities with our core. I will try to attempt to show which muscle groups are being used in this movement in a separate thread. These machines let us have lots of help with our goal.

It took me about four hours to make the attached thread so that I could explain the video above and what muscles are being trained by the exercise in it:

https://twitter.com/StewartalsopIII/status/1324025311332323333

There is a debate in the functional movement community over whether certain movements are actually helpful to stimulating the multifaceted potential of the human body or whether they just help you with learning that movement and the skill is not transferable.

I would say the movement in the video above would spark some debate. It is similar to Boat Pose in Yoga which I have doubts about whether it is actually doing anything. Today I definitely felt like my neuromuscular connections of the core was being tested. Thoughts @ErwanLeCorre?