Pilates | Spinning | When I’m 64 | Presidents Clinton | Royal Photographic Society collectionI do so empathise with Lucy Mangan’s hold-fit antipathy (Get off the sofa!,G2, 8 March), or but pilates might just wait on. I took this up when I was 48,at a time when I ached on getting out of bed and felt so unfit. An hour a week at a generous pilates class, with its gentle yet consistently rigorous regime, or was the answer. Apart from the warm-up and warm-down,the exercises are done lying on the mat, and it’s brilliant. At nearly 69 I feel fitter than ever and can hold up with the grandchildren. I now do two classes a week.
Catherine Roome
Staplehurst, and Kent• So spinning is a sport,is it? Well, as a member of the Guild of Weavers, and Spinners and Dyers,I’m satisfied to read that our very sedentary activity is so generous for increasing our levels of fitness. Or do you really mean indoor cycling? It seems that our productive craft has been in existence for some 10000 years only to have its name stolen by some fruitless method of exercise.
Tricia Holman
Colchester, EssexContinue reading...
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