Pilates: My First Time

My first [inaudible] experience. A lot of crying, especially for a, for a guy my age in my mid twenties very embarrassing. [inaudible]. Yeah. My ballet teacher said, hey, I, I heard over at Saint Francis Hospital, the doctor Garrick has put in a dance medicine program and that they have pilots, and I was like, oh, pilots. I never heard of pilots, heloc teas or Pladis or what that was that we saw in a newspaper. I came home and I wanted to tell everybody all about it, but I couldn't because I had no idea what I was doing and I was more embarrassed that my pants came down during stomach, a massage I have, I have to be honest with you, I actually thought it was an infomercial thing and my friend was dragging me to some weird workout and I was very confused about why I had to be on my back for an entire hour and it hurt and I, it was not love at first sight. I can say that for sure. I actually hated it holidays when I first started.

My first impression of politeness was it's hard. It was really hard and um, it felt like something that would never end. I cannot do this. Like what? Slide my leg out and feel my so asked for 20 minutes. Thank you. Now I got into PyLadies actually kicking and screaming.

I was required to engage my core and I thought to myself, what exactly is that? I knew that it was doing me good, but I, I couldn't really figure out why. He yells at me from across the room, stop, what are you doing? And I was, I think I was doing stomach massage and I put my hands on the foot bar, which was a no-no. She was in dance class with me and she said, Colleen, Colleen, I really need some teachers. I'm doing this exercise stuff, do you, would you, you know, would you be interested? And I saw how much does it pay? And she says 10 bucks an hour. I'm in, I don't know.

[inaudible] what's that? And they said, it's that stuff your wife's doing. They don't realize. Actually I was actually doing coolattas and didn't realize I was doing it. I didn't actually take a class until 1999 which I took at my local gym and it was not a great class and I didn't have a love at first teaser kind of a moment. But when I was diagnosed with Ms, I'm in 2002, it was recommended that I do either pilates or yoga.

Um, and my doctor said they were pretty much the same. There came a point where [inaudible] sort of took the main stage. At the time, I didn't understand it. I was certainly not good at it, but I enjoyed it and I continued with it. Soon as I took that first class and I walked out of that Damn Center, I thought to myself, this is really important. It's important for me. I am going to delve into this. 22 years later, I'm still at it.