Reformer Pilates - am I doing it wrong?

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I’ve been doing reformer Pilates a couple of times a week for a month. It’s a killer, and I feel wrecked afterwards, but surprisingly not round my middle. It comes out unscathed. I feel it mostly in my legs and inner thighs.

I’m doing it for core strength.

Am I doing it wrong?

It depends what exercises you are doing. If you are being set up correctly with the Pilates basic principles then your core should be engaged throughout the class. But to actually feel the burn on your core, you’d have to do a plank series on a light spring, or maybe mid back and 100 for a long period of time. I teach Reformer, and actually own a studio, and I do find that the teachers that work for me that give the best results are those that work using strict Pilates principles, working slowly with long sets. A lot of my customers think that the dynamic classes of the hardest, but moving quickly on the machine means you lose a lot of fhe resistance. If you are doing it correctly, then you will definitely get a strong core doing reformer Pilates two or three times a week. But it also takes time, especially if you have had babies and need to rebuild your core. It’s so good for your future health though, you are doing a good thing for your body!