Tanya sent out a little Q&A to our physio team to find out what their favourite and least favourite exercises are. Sometimes we’re guilty of choosing to do our own favourites when we do our own Pilates sessions. That’s one reason it’s always great to be led by an instructor who will dish our some of your least favourite exercises too- as these are often the ones our bodies actually need to do!

Tanya’s Q&A:

1. Favourite exercise for myself

2. Favourite exercise for clients

3. Least favourite exercise to do ourselves?

Mitchell

1. Rocket and stomach pulls!

2. Butt busters on 0.5 springs

3. Controversial but legs in straps!

Diana

1. Scooter variations

2. Butt busters

3. Standing adductors
   

Sarah

1. Legs in straps or anything abs

2. Jump board series or butt busters

3. Standing abduction
   

Sheree

1. Legs ins straps

2. Standing lunge series, especially the back leg bend for my higher level clients that want to make their legs feel like jelly

3. V ups on TT
   

Sally

1. Pikes/knee tucks/rocket

2. Heavy/light butt busters

3. Standing board glutes
   

Tanya

1. Legs in straps

2. Stomach massage (not really a massage!)

3. Reverse abs

Tash

1. Legs in straps

2. Forearm plank series

3. Standing lunge series especially on a higher reformer with light springs

Ali

1. Snake (when I am up for it!)

2. Anything on the wobble board because it always provides a challenge

3. Reverse abs

Alex

1. Pikes anything core

1. Scooter tippy birds

2. 4 point kneeling
   

Lucy

1. Mermaid on the reformer

2. My fav to give people is the series scooter, lunge then tipping bird

3. I don’t have one!

Which are your favourite exercises?

Tanya

Find another one of our team Q&A’s with this previous blog review of activewear