Pilates too hard for me

[Maria]

Hi Rob,
I was doing a pretty simple floor routine w/a lot of core strengthening exercises for nearly several months when I decided to amp up my workout a bit and add some buttock specific exercises.

I should know better by now. Did well at first tho put myself into a huge flare up and had to take weeks off my routine just to come back to baseline.

Like Dale I'm pretty good when I find what works for me and work with that tho I find I'm not a "normie" when it comes to strength and endurance and just have to find my pace with whatever it is that I try as long as the movements aren't extraneous and/or just totally not something my bod will handle.

The upper body gets C5/6 flared up with cervical issues and lower body with L4 so I have to really work at working out and not working myself into flareups/knots.

Good luck with whatever you try. My aim is to keep as toned as I'm able, stay flexible and keep as normal range of motion as is possible for my types of injuries. Sometimes all I do is walk. Sometimes even that lightweight activity is curtailed by the tendonitis I have in both feet so then I do the floor exercises that don't involve being dependent (weight on feet).

My exercise routine is a little of this and a little of that and this and that is whatever I can tolerate and still do to stay active! I like the stability ball a lot for core exercises as well.