Day 5 for Beginner Pilates was the Fundamentals 2 workout. This was supposed to be the workout on Thursday, but I accidentally mixed them up, so I just did this one today and moved on. Shockingly, I am seeing tiny gains in my flexibility even after the first week. On the modified roll-up, when I stretch forward I can get a little (and I stress a little) a bit farther with my reach. Even when I was a kid, and was much more flexible than I am as an adult, I could never do that seated stretch worth a damn. When we had to do that fitness test in school and had to sit with our feet against the box and move the slider at the top, I could barely reach the slider, much less move it.
The Lift 4 workout was legs, which was a 50/50 lifting and cardio workout. For this one, there are three blocks of two different leg exercises. You do 10 reps of each exercise and then rest, and then repeat for three rounds. Then, after you get through the three blocks of leg exercises you do cardio. There are three cardio exercises you cycle through, high knee jog for 1-minute, a move where you keep your knees two inches off the floor and hop side-to-side for 45 seconds, and then squat jacks for 30 seconds. You do three rounds of the cardio, and then you alternate two different core exercises (a version of a crunch and plank leg lifts). So, it is another brutal workout that will have you gassed by the end of it.
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