For people who want to boost their fat burning during a Pilates session, we suggest you ask your instructor about integrating interval training into your workout. We have a great, portable piece of equipment called the X-iser (http://tinyurl.com/xiser60) that is a low impact way to reproduce a running motion which is easy on the knees and on the spine and works on balance as well as getting a killer workout. While the X-iser looks like those cheap mini-steppers you see on infomercials, it is far from that. It is a very well made machine designed specifically for sprint interval training.
What works great within our studio is to do a short Pilates warm up then 60 seconds on the X-iser. The goal is to go all out like a sprint so that at the end of 60 seconds, you don’t have enough energy to go any longer. After that sprint, we do a minimum 4 minute recovery of more Pilates exercises, integrating flexibility, movement retraining, toning, and then we repeat that cycle 3 more times during the session.
The result: a cardio/fat blasting session combined with the toning, flexibility, and core strengthening Pilates session that will improve how well you move, how long you can move, how much can you move, and how good you’ll look while you move.
