A lot of people take Pilates and learn how to strengthen their core, how to maintain proper balance, how to breathe and how to improve their posture. Here’s what I learned:
The right side of my body is frighteningly strong. It’s confident, athletic, flexible and hard as a rock. I guess you could say it’s even a little conceited.
The left side of my body is a whimpering, weak, pathetic, insecure freak with no friends.
Neither of these two sides of my body like each other, and rightly so. My goal as a Pilates student is to teach the left side of my body that it needs to toughen up so it can kick my ass (the right side I mean). I haven’t told my instructor this yet, but I’m planning to secretly stop using my right side altogether and only work out my left. I believe this new way of training will bring me an inner peace that I would have never been able to achieve with traditional Pilates. I will finally learn to love the side of myself that constantly humiliates and sabotages me. I will become, for the first time in my life, a whole human being. There’s also an excellent chance that I will fall and hurt myself very badly.
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