by way of background

I first discovered pilates in 2000 when I was first starting to heal from a serious repetitive stress injury. It's a long story, but suffice to say I will keep these blog posts short as I still try to limit the amount of typing I do. I started with weekly mat classes and in January, 2003 I was introduced to the reformer thanks to an amazing MD/acupuncturist who believed that that combination of treatment can fix just about anything.

Since then, I've survived a writing intensive masters degree program (writing my thesis in 4 days using voice recognition software) and continued to study pilates. I try to take a class at least once a week (some combination of reformer/springboard/mat/ball) and then practice at home.

My injury still causes some issues. My wrists can't tolerate a lot of plank work and my upper ab curl could be a little stronger. But I can't blame my injury on the fact that I can't do a teaser for more than 3 seconds without falling over. My hamstrings are too tight? My balance is funky? I'm just plain uncoordinated? All true.

Pilates is supposedly helping me with all of these things, but I feel like I need to focus a little more if I want to take my practice to the next level. The teaser is sort of the quintessential pilates move and if I can achieve that I'll feel like I've made true progress in moving past this stupid injury (which it really is -- injured in the line of... typing? Now that's just ridiculous).

Will it happen?