The 5 types in your pilates class
Yoga is difficult for me. A matter of too little patience, I fear. Meanwhile, I know how beneficial the ‘hum’ is, but I can only think: during this minute I could have been planking. To maintain a bit of balance between an okay body and a relaxed mind, pilates is what makes me happy. A rare wonderful teacher who distributes sunshine during her class completes the party. But it's also nice that you are with totally different types of women in your class than, for example, during a boxing class or boot camp. I'll go through them with you because you'll surely recognize them.
1. The ultimate zen woman
While I am still half texting, just in time I stumble into the class, she dips her herbal tea bag into her thermos she brought. She wears only earth tones and a lot of wool, no makeup. Everything is pure, her body effortlessly slim and I wonder if she even has a phone.
2. The expat
Somehow, the pilates class seems to be a magnet for expats. They come to me from all corners of the world, from South Africa to California to Australia and Singapore. I would love to know what brought them to our country, but if I do, I fall off my reformer pilates machine.
3. The eye poke
Oh dear if you sit on her machine, because she doesn't like that. But the chance is small, because she is always the first in class to warm up and pull her crop top a little higher. She tries to make inside jokes or references with the teacher and just when you wonder how she can have such a godforsaken beautiful body, she says that she already did a workout that same day at 7:00 AM. There's always someone better, even in yoga class.
4. The quiet perfectionist
You don't really hear her, she is quite modest, often wears loose-fitting clothes and always chooses a spot in the background. Until the teacher asks if she wants to demonstrate a backflip and she turns out to be the best of all.
5. The jack of all trades
She has a demanding job, young children, sometimes sleeps three hours less because of the aforementioned offspring, but she is still there. Zen and cheerful and sociable. How does she do that?
