Roaming Pilates

This was a LOT of work, and worth every moment. My Pilates journey has taken a new direction. Onwards and upwards! Thank you .education for a transformational year 🤟🏻

What a year, what a transformation-thank-you! Woohooo! Off to celebrate 🥳🤩🥂🍾

PAR-Q: my core is a puddle; IT intro to the session for instructors: this is more advanced than intermediate 🤦🏼‍♀️🤪

When you are ready to start teaching again and the world 🌍 is in lockdown 🔐🤦🏼‍♀️

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What exercise did you miss when pre-natal? I definitely missed weights most. So good to be back at it 🥊 and a perfect pairing with Pilates 👌🏻 it’s heaven to be slowly finding a ‘new normal’ and incorporating the things I love again slowly as life settles 🙌🏻
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It’s been a long time my friend! 🤱🏼🙅🏼‍♀️ @ เทคนิคกรุงเทพฯ

- has anyone tried them before? 🧐 it’s just too hot here in BKK for hot porridge!
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🐽I’m trying to avoid grazing through the day, and now I can eat (pretty much) normally again, I’m going back to super filling, energy boosting porridge with some fruit for breakfast - something I’ve really missed and not been able to eat so far.
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👌🏼 It’s so easy to forget that nutrition is 80% of managing a healthy weight, and only 20% of the effort is exercise. So important to have your eating in check if you want to maintain a healthy weight range (but don’t forget to go to Pilates 😝)
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Let me know if you have any good recipes for overnight oats, I didn’t realise how popular they were until yesterday! 🤗
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@ Bangkok, Thailand

🤰🏼28 weeks, third trimester!
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🤺For those who know me, mornings are not my thing...however, I have found mornings much easier since being pregnant-these days the wake up kicks from our ninja daughter help get me out of bed!
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🤸🏼‍♂️I’ve taken on a Personal Trainer to see me through the sluggish final trimester to ensure I’m getting a rounded workout and not just repeating the things I love (!), and keep me motivated for those days (or weeks 🙈) when the motivation is lacking.
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💥Some days when I go to exercise I really can’t be bothered, but, without exception I always feel so much better afterwards. I remember back to the determination of all my past prenatal clients who rallied and powered on through right to the end 💪🏻
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💤 So if you are pregnant and feeling sluggish, try exercise! It may feel like the antithesis to what you want to do, but do it with a friend, husband, join a class, or just get a podcast (I’ve just discovered and am loving .hood ) & go for a good brisk walk, I guarantee you’ll feel a boost, motivated and better afterwards!
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Don’t forget water-drink drink drink 💦
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U P D A T E ! 22 weeks 🤰🏼👧🏼
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I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to enjoy most of my second trimester with minimal symptoms. I feel very lucky; I know a few people who are still really struggling & due around the same time as me 😔
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I continue to find exercise a huge help, it’s gives me a massive boost (even if I really don’t want to go before hand 🤣🙈) I’ve noted below what I’m doing, and I find this is a really good balance for me and I’m usually pooped afterwards! **PLEASE NOTE-THIS IS A TAILORED WORKOUT TO MY ABILITY, IT IS NOT SOMETHING TO BE COPIED**
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I’m always doing PF work throughout each day, if you are pregnant, try not to isolate PF work to gym time, try to do it on and off all day 🕺🏼
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Monday’s session 🤸🏼‍♂️ Pilates & arc barrel squat series (I’m loving having my equipment back 💪🏻). To those of you who I have taught pre-natal - you will be pleased to know I’m torturing myself in the same way I tortured you! I do roughly 150 squats in 4 sets with short breaks in between (I have been doing this for a long time, this may not be achievable if you are new to squatting, you may find yourself waddling through Wednesday with DOMS!! 🦆)
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Wednesday’s session 🏋🏼‍♀️ 20 minutes of hill walking for fat burning, then about 40 mins to 1 hour of weights - I vary my weights session depending on how I’m feeling both in length of workout and weight used.
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Friday’s session 🏃🏼‍♀️ is cardio, either a very gentle jog, or hill walking for anywhere between 30 - 60 minutes depending on how I’m feeling, and I tag on some lunge squats at the end.
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Temporary home #2! Nearly there, at least it’s all blown up now 💪🏻 just need to find a proper storage solution in this new house now!

Writing up my pregnancy and exercise so far, detailing how I felt each week to enhance my pre-natal classes in the future. 🤗

YES YES YES! 🥰 This whole episode with & (Jo McDonald) resonated with me and my teaching experiences in so many ways-quote below, I have certainly taken many a client through this transition! Definitely take a listen if you have time! 👂🏼
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Jo McDonald: ‘When people start moving, they’re not going to be co-ordinated at it...Pilates is very confrontational, it will really point out where your body doesn’t move well, and it will underline it, and put it in highlighter and put little stars by it.....”ok! This is what I need to fix, this is what I need to address” rather than “oh I suck at this”.....’
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