[Diabetes-talk] information wanted for Pilates and/or yoga?

[Julie Kline]

Try doing your first ever 3 mile indoor walk using a DVD and then let me
know which is worse, the way you feel after the walking or water-boarding.
I did it earlier this week and when I was done, I was like asking myself,
Are you trying to kill me?  But I knew it was time for me to go to the next
level, and have done two 3-mile walks twice now over two consecutive days.
Not bad considering my first time I did the program back in the beginning of
February, I could barely make a mile.  The second 3-mile walk wasn't nearly
as exhausting or as bad as the first.
Oh well, such are things when you pick up a new exercise program.  My goal
is to get to 4 miles each day 6 days a week.  We'll see when that happens.
Julie


-----Original Message-----
From: Diabetes-talk [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
Mike Freeman
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 11:08 PM
To: 'Diabetes Talk for the Blind'
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] information wanted for Pilates and/or yoga?

Sounds almost worse than water-boarding to me. (smirk)

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: Diabetes-talk [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
Bridgit Pollpeter
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 4:11 PM
To: 'Diabetes Talk for the Blind'
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] information wanted for Pilates and/or yoga?

Only yoga has the philosophical element, but most modern gyms only focus on
the actual physical part.

And these types of stretching work heavily with breathing techniques, so the
spiritual side kind of goes hand-in-hand, but it's really about focusing on
the breathing and position. As I said, modern gyms will want you to focus on
the breathing, but I doubt they will be teaching any spiritual element
unless it's a specific yoga facility or some hippy-dippy instructor, grin.

I was doing Pilates and yoga long before I lost my sight, so I do a lot on
my own without help. I was a dancer and fitness instructor back in the day,
so I just remember a lot, which helps.

I'm not aware of described videos, but in my experience, most exercise
videos describe movements as the instructor goes along, so they very well
may work for blind people.

A yoga or Pilates class shouldn't be a problem at all. It's very easy for an
instructor to describe each position as you go along, and if you are
comfortable, they can even help place you in a position if necessary. You
can also go with a work-out partner so they can describe positions as you go
along.

Bridgit

-----Original Message-----
From: Diabetes-talk [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
Julie Kline
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 2:43 PM
To: diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Diabetes-talk] information wanted for Pilates and/or yoga?


Hi All,

 

I had read in a recent message from Bridget that you've done Pilates.
For people who have done these, I'm just curious, how do you do these?
Are there DVDs available that you use where they verbally describe what
moves they are doing and you can follow along safely?  Do you go through a
facility?  The place I go to offers classes in Pilates and yoga, but I never
did it just because I'm not into the whole philosophical and meditation
aspect of those, (nothing towards that, it's just not my thing), but if
there's something out there that just does the stretching part, I'm curious
as to how you made it work.  I currently use some walking DVDs, but would
like to mix things up a little.

 

Thanks.

Julie

 

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