You can teach an old dog new tricks. They just might not be good at them

I’ve been Pilates-curious nearly my entire adult life but, up until recently, too afraid to go to a Pilates class because:

1. The way people talk about Pilates has led me to believe that it is for only the strongest among us. I’ve seen videos of body builders being reduced to shaky, sweat-drenched messes after just a few minutes on the reformer machine.

2. Pilates might be a cult? People who do Pilates seem to only talk about doing Pilates. And that’s coming from someone who has trained for marathons and made it everyone else’s problem every single time by refusing to talk about anything else other than electrolyte intake and mile times.

3. I don’t like doing things that I am not immediately good at.

But despite all those hesitations, I decided to finally try reformer pilates at the