Pilates, Yoga, or Barre?

Mysunshinelife31

Heye everyone! I am a huge fan of all three, but I want your opinion of your favorite and why.

puffbrat

I like pilates and yoga for different reasons. I like yoga for more calm and static stretching. I like pilates for the active movement. I have never tried barre.

striving4moretoday

yin yoga

Mysunshinelife31

Thanks!

Sunshine_And_Sand

I've never tried barre. I haven't done Pilates in years. I enjoy yoga more for the flow aspect of it.

DancingMoosie

I like ballet, but not "barre" per se. I have a bar amped dvd and don't really care for that type of exercise. I like the calmness and stretching of yoga, and like more yoga flow than static. Not as familiar with Pilates. I'm more of a mover. I like to dance and do kickboxing, like turbofire.

springlering62

I’ve done yoga for about eight years, even at my heaviest. I have a love/not love relationship with it right now- and it’s my own fault. Since I’ve lost weight, I’m way more flexible and keep pushing beyond what I should. Am nursing a few sore spots right now. (Yoga Butt anyone? Really uncomfortable. ) I do mostly hot flow and warm yin.

I don’t know why I feel so driven to push so hard. My goal is to fly and get a handstand without a wall this year.

Started pilates before Christmas and I absolutely love it. I can tell a huge difference in strength since starting and when I started doing weight training last month, my trainer was agog at my arm muscles. I attribute those to pulsing the SuperFit ring every chance I get.

My only wish is they’d have more advanced Pilates classes or show mods to make things more difficult. I’m feeling not so challenged. Again, that nutso drive to push hard.

We do have one instructor who does a 45 minute “efficient” class who kicks *kitten* though. She had us using two rings at a time last week. I thought I’d die, but I made it through.

Now, I need to go soak butt and ankle in an epsom bath. Ta ta, ya’ll.

corriepelc

I love barre workouts as crosstraining for my running, and they're a nice break from my strength workouts. They get my stretching, which I need more of.

I've been dancing since I was 5, so they remind me of dance class.

Mysunshinelife31

Wow thank you all so mich for this information! I am looking at varying up my routines and this helps

rainbow198

I incorporate all three in my fitness routine for different reasons.

Pilates: I love the mind-body connection. Helps me to maintain a tight core and has improved my posture.

Yoga: Balance, flexibility and mobility.

Barre: Muscle endurance. Helps me to maintain that tightness in my lower body. Love the indirect cardio effect.

I actually did a Pilates/barre mashup workout following up with deep stretching this morning and it was amazing!

Mysunshinelife31

Woah that is amazing! Thank you for the breakdown of your benefits to each one.

mbaker566

barre hasn't interested me
pilates seems more outward focused. and more single minded
in my yoga classes, i use "pilates" moves. there are eight limbs of yoga and the poses are just one of them.

mengqiz86

Tried all 3, don’t like any. If I have to choose, probably yoga in a hot room for recovery, injury prevention and meditative benefits. Would much rather run, bike, play tennis, lift weights. Barre actually makes me feel like a “sexercise” and if you look it up it actually had its roots in improving women’s sex lives!