How to build a baseline

One of the biggest tools in your exercise arsenal can often go underlooked:

Understanding your body’s baseline.

This means having a sense - an awareness - of how your body generally feels, both inside and outside of sessions. Knowing your baseline can help you better understand when to push forward and when to pull back.

It’s one of my favorite things about Pilates. As a modality, it offers endless options to level up or down, whether you’re on the mat or the reformer. 

But, at the heart of the practice is something deeper: building an understanding and awareness of your body and what it's capable of. 

That awareness might look like:

• Noticing if you’re holding your breath when you shouldn’t be.

• Recognizing when you’re losing muscle engagement (hello, fatigue!).

• Understanding that shaking during The Hundred isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

• Or even, realizing that when you’re coming into a session slightly under the weather, your body may not be up for what it usually is.

Tapping into this awareness doesn’t just help you progress when things feel easy. More importantly, it helps you understand what your body’s baseline should feel like in your day-to-day life so you can notice when something feels off.

If you want to start understanding your baseline, I’d love to help! Join me for a Pilates Party this week!