Since I left school, my postural habits have become quite bad. I worked in retail clothing stores for several years and wore heels for 10 hour shifts on hard floors standing up all day until I actually got nerve damage in my feet! The dress standards were in the policy manual, and wearing high heels every day was one of the policies. Believe it or not, we actually got reprimanded if we were caught with flats on! Anyway, so with bad habits and work conditions teamed with my lack of body awareness, I developed very rounded shoulders and a very arched lower back. I wish I had discoved Pilates a long time ago!
Today I did a 1:1 with Louise O’Sullivan. Louise originally designed my program a few weeks ago and said she would include some challenging leg exercises (the ones I like) only on the condition that I would do my shoulder/postural correction exercises (the ones I don;t like). It was a deal, and now after doing my program a few times, I am finding that those exercises that I always thought were boring and slow are actually quite challenging, and if you work on it and focus during your sessions, you actually progress quite well! After only a few sessions of this program, I am really enjoying the postural exercises – perhaps even more than the rest of the program. I never thought I would see the day!
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