Bounce Magazine January 2019

JANUARY 2019 | ISSUE #75
REVIEW OF THE REFORMER CLASS AT:
Millie Dobie
Pilates
Rachel Ducker, gets a post Christmas reformer work out with
Millie Dobie at her Pilates studio at The Cut in Halesworth…
January has arrived and every year
it happens to me…
Post-Christmas guilt starts to burden my thoughts,
the sore feeling of over-indulgence lingers
throughout my body and usually I feel the regret
of one too many glasses of fizz over the festive
period… this year happens to be no different.
To be brutally honest, I am bored of running on
that treadmill that just doesn’t get you anywhere.
Making a pleasant change from the gym, I was
very excited to be invited along to attend Millie
Dobie’s Pilates reformer class, and trust me, a class
or two of reformer Pilates will have you in shape
quicker than you think possible. I have always
wanted to try Pilates, not the mat class, but the
real deal on the reformer machines.
Reformer Pilates is similar, yet very different to
mat based Pilates. It is done using the machine
and is generally more intense and more dynamic
than mat based Pilates as it adds resistance to the
Pilates exercises via the use of the springs, which
form part of the machine. A class on the reformer
is excellent to help with rehabilitation from injury
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