A short spoken segment from a YouTube video where the speaker (Mihail Pautov) explains they do Pilates or yoga once a week for flexibility and mobility. They prefer Pilates currently due to a hip issue and highlight using a Reformer bench to increase resistance as needed. The speaker describes adapting training with age: avoiding excess weight while maintaining muscle mass, strength, cardiovascular fitness, and range of motion, and frames their approach as balancing these elements and self-competition.
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And I also do Pilates or yoga once a week, which is more for the flexibility and mobility. Once a week. Right now I'm doing Pilates because I have a hip problem and the yoga irritates it. And Pilates is very controlled. With the. With the bench. The Reformer Bench. Yes, yes. This is important because you can increase the resistance where if you're just doing stretching with your body, you just got your body weight, but with the Reformer Bench, so once it gets easy, you can add the resistance. Would you recommend that? Yeah, I mean, I'll tell you my attitude towards it. Yeah. You know, I was super hardcore macho bodybuilder, right. So I saw Jay Cutler doing Pilates. Man, what are you doing that for? You know, like. Yeah. And then later on, I'm doing yoga, I'm doing Pilates, because, you know, I'm in a different stage of my life with different requirements. So what do I require? I require not to be too heavy, because as you get older, that's not good. And it require muscle mass and strength, cardiovascular fitness, flexibility and mobility. So I like to tick all the boxes. Because you're working on keeping your range of motion, because you lose range of motion when you lift weights, you know, because we only move in this and this. We don't turn a lot of things. So you get kind of limited. And, you know, you see bodybuilders walk, it's like this. You're very limited with your range of motion. So, like, I want to be good in all the areas. Not competitively. It's just, for me, I compete with myself, and I like to have these little challenges, you know?