Comments for Fuse Pilates

Comment on Fuse Pilates for the People (What Makes Us Different) by Clare

Clare — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:26:46 +0000

My muscles got used to traditional pilates too quickly; without variety, it stopped serving me. About the music: during Joe’s time, exercise science thought music detracted.from the work, but we now have much better evidence to suggest that incorporating music into a workout improves muscle efficiency, heart rate, recovery, and motivation.

Comment on I Love Super Bowl Ads, But Not This One by Joelle

Joelle — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:33:21 +0000

I was offended by this ad and so many others-apparently I was not alone. If there was a central theme to the super bowl commercials, it was sexism. Good call, M.

Comment on I Love Super Bowl Ads, But Not This One by Allegra

Allegra — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:24:53 +0000

Even if it weren’t offensive and incorrect, the ad itself is not creative or funny in the least. It’s too bad that ad probably cost them in the hundreds of thousands. Think of all the fuse classes that the people who created the ad could buy themselves to get their butts into shape?!

Comment on I Love Super Bowl Ads, But Not This One by Clare

Clare — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:28:19 +0000

Ugh, this is ridiculously obnoxious. I don’t understand why guys hate on the bad-asslieness of Fuse. My “feminine side” could kick their asses and have time left to bust out a few pushups Michelle Obama style.

Comment on Reflecting on Resolutions by Flying Yenta

Flying Yenta — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:23:42 +0000

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Comment on Tights Aren’t Pants by Kate Fried

Kate Fried — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:56:05 +0000

I was once in a yoga class where the man in front of me was wearing some form of athletic tights that were way too shear, and he was most definitely NOT wearing any underwear. I spent the 90 minutes vacillating between fvisually violated and rather sorry for him*. Apparently he didn’t get Mariska’s memo. Also, I once attended a Ren Faire with a then boyfriend who insisted on wearing his cowboy hat the entire time (he had a cowboy complex). Fashion faux pas about at those events.

*And no, I don’t make a habit of checking guys out in yoga, this was a bit too glaring to ignore.

Comment on Tights Aren’t Pants by AB

AB — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:30:23 +0000

Awesome post and good points, A!

However, you need to cut those who are cursed with hyperactive sweat glands some slack.
Some of us are real-cotton full-back underwear, black workout pant, anti-perspirant using Fuse addicts, who are self-conscious about the issue and wish people would understand that these things just happen in exercise classes sometimes.

Comment on Tights Aren’t Pants by Morgan

Morgan — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:19:29 +0000

If this is the worst thing you have seen at Renn Fest, consider yourself lucky!

Comment on Tights Aren’t Pants by Mariska Breland

Mariska Breland — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:15:49 +0000

A! All excellent points. I’ve seen many issues with sheerness when people are doing exercises. (Note from the teacher’s point of view – we see a lot!) The issue, too, is that people need to bend over and check out the see-through-ness of their clothes in proper lighting. If you do the check in a dark room, it doesn’t work! Also, I agree that thicker pants are better. American Apparel seems to be sending out some tights as workout pants. Perhaps they need a more educated sales force.

Comment on Tights Aren’t Pants by A

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:42:31 +0000

My thighs aren’t thin enough to wear leggings but I think it looks fine on thin people as long as they wear a tunic with it.

My issue at the gym is I feel women need to wear full back underwear and here’s why. Women buy polyester black capris (not lululemon because they are thicker) and then what they don’t realize is that after repeatedly putting it in the dryer (should hang dry), only when they bend over their whole butt area is sheer.

So here’s my own flow chart. lol I see these two types of women all the time.

1. Wears a thong, bends over in Pilates class and I see through her black pants light as day her white butt cheeks and green thong, I shouldn’t be able to determine your thong color. I alert her to this after class while standing, she turns around and sees nothing. This only happens when you’re bending over like tying your shoe, stretching, or picking up a weight and I see this a lot in my gym classes.

2. Decides to go pantyless, sweats ton and in her gray capris she has sweat spots in the most unflattering place. I think a second layer of fabric – real cotton underwear – would help prevent this. Not the flimsy seamless ones that are so thin. Think about the sweaty girl who you can outline her sports bra through the back of her shirt, that extra fabric of the sports bra prevented sweat spots in that area.

I really don’t get why women care about panty lines at the gym. Men don’t care about it. Women are doing it for other women which is pretty odd if you think about it. If they care about that shouldn’t they equally care about their sports bra strap sticking out? Seems silly that one matters and the other doesn’t.