When I\u2019m at home, I go to the gym to strength train two or three times a week and I also do one reformer Pilates session per week. On a recent two-week trip without access to the gym or Pilates studio, and a desire to dedicate less time to exercise while holidaying, I went looking for an efficient strength workout that required minimal equipment.<\/p>\n
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I came across a Pilates workout by Iris Poldervaart<\/a>, an instructor whose online workouts I often follow. It takes less than 25 minutes and it uses one of my favourite pieces of equipment\u2014Pilates sliders.<\/p>\n I packed my sliders<\/a> in my suitcase, because they\u2019re super lightweight and take up barely any space in a bag, and I ended up doing this routine twice a week while I was away.<\/p>\n How to do Iris Poldervaart\u2019s 22-minute Pilates slider routine<\/p>\n 22 min Reformer Inspired Pilates workout | Using sliders – YouTube Watch On <\/a><\/p>\n While Poldervaart and I used sliders, you can always use a towel or a blanket on a hard floor.<\/p>\n You\u2019ll also need a pair of weights, but I didn\u2019t pack any, so I used two large bottles of water instead.<\/p>\n Poldervaart guides you through this workout in real time during her video and it incorporates moves that target the entire body.<\/p>\n Shop core slidersThe benefits of Iris Poldervaart\u2019s reformer Pilates inspired workout<\/p>\n Bodyweight workouts are a great way to keep fit and integrating Pilates sliders can add a whole new challenge to your workout, because you have to actively stabilise the muscles while moving.<\/p>\n This can increase the strengthening benefits of a workout, and it also activates the stabilizing muscles, which play a big role in injury prevention.<\/p>\n In this way, it mimics the benefits of reformer Pilates, which has helped to reduce my knee pain and improve my overall strength, so I was happy to find a workout with similar benefits.<\/p>\n Pilates sliders are particularly helpful for engaging the core, which is something that I wanted to focus on while on vacation. Maintaining good core strength helps to keep my back pain at bay and makes walking\u2014which I was doing a lot of on this trip\u2014more comfortable.<\/p>\n And although this workout is challenging, it\u2019s low-impact, which means it doesn\u2019t put pressure on the joints, and it also won\u2019t leave you overly sweaty or breathless, so it\u2019s easy to fit into your day. I often did it first thing in the morning or after lunch.<\/p>\n Poldervaart\u2019s routine starts and ends with a short stretching sequence, which is great for maintaining mobility and flexibility while travelling. If you have time, it\u2019s worth pairing this routine with some more stretching exercises<\/a> to boost your overall health even more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Going on vacation is not only a welcome break from day-to-day life and work, but my usual workout…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[337,97],"class_list":["post-79748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-fitness","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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