I am going to be 100% honest here! I never really liked working out! I remember being in middle school and having to run around the school, oh I disliked it so much but I still did it! In high school I HATED conditioning with a passion! I literally would die! That is one of the reasons why I didn’t continue playing softball but also because I wasn’t really good at it! Who was I kidding! I never played sports up until HS. I have always had a love – hate relationship with working out! I never liked running! I tried strength training, Zumba classes and yoga. I felt like I tried it all up until Pilates!
When I first discovered Pilates I was definitely intimidated by the women who would practiced Pilates; thin and a size -2! Here I come my thick bone-ded self. I began to look at classes around the area and granted the area I live in is a little boogie so everything is more expensive and in general Plates classes are expensive to begin with! So I searched in YouTube and lo and behold I found Mat Pilates! Now I went through various instructors via YouTube but until I found Jacqui Kingswell! OMGEE! I feel in love with Mat Pilates! Her beginner videos were just that for beginners but the sweat and shaking in my body hurt so good! I continued doing her videos on YouTube and later got a yearly subscription to her program, The Pilates Class. I am not going to lie it is intense but it felt so right and of course I wanted to learn more about Pilates so I got certified! Give me a few years and maybe I’ll even start teaching Pilates who knows!
Growing up in our culture and lifestyle we did not pay too much attention to what we ate and the exercise we did. So as an adult I had and have to relearn and train myself to make my health journey a lifestyle not just a diet. Some people can be like me and say they don’t like working out but you simply just haven’t found YOUR THING! It’s never too late to start your health journey. I truly think about how my body already feels just imagine when I am 45 or 65! We can truly make an impact now that will allow us to be more mobile when we age.