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I am not a yoga purist, lol. But I like power yoga specifically, where you get to burn a few calories along with your peaceful meditative state. It's great! One gym I attended had tribal yoga (yoga + african dance), which was bizarre but WONDERFUL!
I suppose that pilates wouldn't bother me so much if so many people didn't buy into it. Every time I hear that someone trying to lose weight wants to use it to 'tone' it just drives me nuts! You have to lose body fat or gain muscle to achieve the effect that is referred to as 'toning', and I dont think that pilates is really the most efficient way to do it by a long shot.
Once you're already in good shape it can be a good way to introduce variety into your workouts, but for the beginner there are just so many better ways to use your time!
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It may be said with rough accuracy that there are three stages in the life of a strong people. First, it is a small power, and fights small powers. Then it is a great power, and fights great powers. Then it is a great power, and fights small powers, but pretends that they are great powers, in order to rekindle the ashes of its ancient emotion and vanity.-- G.K. Chesterton
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