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Building Strength and Longevity Through Pilates with Nofar Hagag · Building the Best You

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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to Building the Best You, a destination for you to reimagine what is possible in your life and then create it.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the show, everybody.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm your host, Gene Collins, and today we're gonna talk about Pilates.
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  SPEAKER_01: I love this subject.
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  SPEAKER_01: My guest is in New York City.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have Nafar Hag, and she is the founder of the No Far Method.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm gonna be 100% honest, guys.
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  SPEAKER_01: When I went to her website, I was like, wow, this is so hard, yet I love a challenge.
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  SPEAKER_01: And she tells me I have to come and try, and that it actually is not hard.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I am so excited to share her brilliance, her method, and share Pilates with you guys because I have to say I've never had a guest come on to talk about Pilates, and I don't know why.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I'm so excited, Nefar, to have you be the first guest to share the world of Pilates.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hello, everyone, and thank you for having me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, you are so welcome, and I love your top too.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: So first, let's talk a little bit about you before we move into what is Pilates and your method and your studios and everything that you do.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'd love if you would share a little bit about you and your background.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: I um lived and worked in the fitness industry since I had a job in my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: I uh used to play professional sport, waterpot and swimming, and uh the hard work of my parents to invest in uh my uh career as an athlete brought me a scholarship to United States.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_00: And I got to play in Division I in New York City, and I had really this uh gift in my life to be able to be good enough to come here.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: And when I moved to New York, to the state as a student athlete, the first thing I was looking for as a part-time job is to work in as a, you know, as a fitness instructor.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the few gifts I got from back home before I uh left is uh to know how to teach swimming, because I was a swimmer, so I always uh was a very good teacher and uh swimming instructor.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was a personal trainer in the gym, and I also got sodified to teach Pilates machine.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_00: And I was, again, very lucky.
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  SPEAKER_00: I I don't know if you know, guys, uh the service, the military service is mandatory in Israel, and because I was uh on an athlete over the path in my life, they gave me to teach exercise to be a trainer in the army.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I they certified me with all kinds of certification that really brought me enough knowledge and love to help people, and I was so passionate about it to help people to move, to enjoy movement and understand what movement uh can do to their bodies.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_00: So when I moved to New York, Pilaris Machine was really, you know, a unique gem in the city.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like not everyone had it, nobody really heard about it, there's no excess.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we're talking about almost 20 years ago, 2008.
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  SPEAKER_00: Make me feel so old.
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  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, it was 2008.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I, you know, was again so lucky, living the dream, living in New York City.
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  SPEAKER_00: Went to a Pilates studio where um I wanted to take classes.
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  SPEAKER_00: I couldn't afford it, I was a student.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I said, okay, how about I work there part-time in addition to all the other stuff I'm doing?
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's how it started.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was just a student.
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  SPEAKER_00: I barely spoke a word in English.
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  SPEAKER_00: I said, there's no way I'm teaching group classes, I'm like so shy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I started with only private.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I don't know, something about this machine I understood anyone in any kind of physical shape will use the machine and it will really change their relationship with working out.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I can't wait for you to try it for yourself because you'll be the most uh testimony.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what I understood, people don't have the education and knowledge about how magical is this machine, the Pilates equipment.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's think about the history, correct?
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  SPEAKER_00: Where they came from.
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  SPEAKER_00: Joseph Pilaris, the person who created Pilates, what he did is started with having the compassion to human beings, and that's everything that should start with compassion, in my opinion.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he went in during the Second War, like to hospital where soldiers were barely moving, and he took the you know, the hospital bed and he attached all kinds of sprain to start to move them, and let's call it an advanced physical therapy, correct?
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's how it started, that he tried to use movement on the machine where people kind of find a comfortable place to move.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because let's face it, there's a Pilaris mat, correct?
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  SPEAKER_00: There's all kinds of movement that's very repetitive on the machine.
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  SPEAKER_00: But on the mat, mean you, whatever a body been through, it's not as easy to be on the mat, to you know, be on your knees, on your wrist.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like it's something about the machine make the experience.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's all about experience in life of working out so much more comfortable.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then after the war, Joseph Pilades opened his first studio in New York City.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again, we in a place where you have access to so many people.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it really was a good base.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because you know what?
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  SPEAKER_00: The reason why I am where I am, because I touched and I worked with so many people, thousands of people that they teach me how to make this exercise program suitable for everyone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because unfortunately, the today, if you go into a Pilates instructor, uh depending on training they have, they really understand what works on their body type and uh their height, their size.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's very hard for them, I don't know if it's the compassion portion of it, but very hard for them to understand how somebody in their 70 or a guy that is a six-foot plus can feel the same benefit in the movement like they will feel.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I really had a privilege to work with a mass of people and really ask the question: what do you feel?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is it comfortable?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is it hurt you anywhere?
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's what I did.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's how the story began for me in Pilaris in New York City.
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  SPEAKER_01: I love it.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's so beautiful.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I I have met a lot of people in the wellness profession that often say, you know, I couldn't afford this, so I offered to work there.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's how I got started, because I was working there and then I learned.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it sounds like you were a sponge of wanting to learn.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I can already see how much that's translated into you creating your own unique method.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, what is so unique about the nofar method versus let's just say any other Pilates studio out there?
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a few things that make it uh unique.
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  SPEAKER_00: First of all, uh, we're using two different equipment in one class.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when you come to a group class, you're using the reformer and the catilag.
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  SPEAKER_00: They both provide different work that can work from uh moving equipment like the reformer where everyone has it everywhere.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the catilag, you can really play with the resistance and work on balance.
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  SPEAKER_00: And together it's really give a complete workout because a lot of workout glasses can really help with uh mobility, uh with uh work on range of motion, but it's hard to find something that will provide also strength, uh suspension of the body, lengthening your body.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like it's really keep a beautiful, complete, uh, well-vanded workout.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's really the biggest uh change that we it's a 50-minute workout class that divided into 25 minutes on the reformer and 25 minutes on the cardillac.
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  SPEAKER_00: That you will try to yourself and see how which one you like better.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_00: And then the other thing is uh my heart.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like my heart is inside a method because you know, I will be honest, and I feel like that's something we really should talk why I got to where I am.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_00: Life wasn't easy for me.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_00: Like when I started to teach in the studio, it's called the Movement Salon.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was the biggest studio in the United States, and they have like eight group classes in one hour.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like there's so many floors.
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  SPEAKER_00: And each class had between six to eight machines.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_00: So back then in 2008, you know, I don't know, the minimum wage was$7.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_00: What can I pay with$7?
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_00: But if I fill a class, I got, I don't know, back then$80.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_00: It was like a really surviving, and I didn't have much time because I was in school full-time, playing sport full-time.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I say, okay, like God put me in a challenge moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, I need to fill my class because I need to pay, you know, rent back then.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_00: And that's really like nobody gave me a golden spoon and say, take this full classes and you're, you know, I didn't have that kind of a support.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_00: So I had to recreate myself.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_00: And then it was about really to see, okay, I have all these people, and there's a reason why they choose you over me.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_00: And I really want to understand how the experience with me not only the stand out, will make them want to come back to me because of what I make them feel.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_00: And that's really what I stand like.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was really careful watching what's going on around me.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the classical Pilaris, the way Pilaris started, it was everyone doing the same movement.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as an athlete, I know that your body doesn't change, correct?
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_00: Your body doesn't stimulate when you repeat every day the same movement, your body doesn't uh improve.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_00: So what I started to do, every day you come to see me, you get a different workout, a different movement.
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  SPEAKER_00: I kept it interesting because if you become to be a predictable person, probably people will lose interest in you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's in everything in life, not only in working out.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_00: And then when I say my heart is inside a company, if you teach for me or you work with me, the kind of human you are, it's more important to me than you will be a superstar with thousands of uh followers.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_00: I care less about the way you look or the way people think about you online.
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  SPEAKER_00: I care how you treat human beings.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_00: And it's very important to make people, when they work out, they trust you with their body.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_00: Imagine you technically lay down on a bed, half naked or whatever you wear, and it's intimidating.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you have a responsibility, those people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you need to have compassion when you teach, you need to have a personality, you need to make them feel comfortable.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in any psychology word, the way you feel people feel comfortable, it's breaking the ice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Start with a smile, start with ask them questions to make them feel that they can trust you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you're very personal, and that's something I'm very proud of in the format.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like when you come to a group class, you don't feel like just a number.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the way we interact in a class, we make it very personal, very individual.
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  SPEAKER_00: Starting with one magical thing that everyone should do in what they're doing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Speak to people by name.
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  SPEAKER_00: People not just a number in a ticket that you know pay the bill.
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  SPEAKER_00: People come there and name is one of the most important things.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every teacher will know you by name, will adjust you during the class, and really make sure that your experience is tailored to you, correct?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because some people want a tough life, some people need more of a support.
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  SPEAKER_00: It depends where they are in the life.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's very personal.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's something that gives the experience different.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm very community.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like I don't know if it's a you know my personality.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm very friendly.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I don't know if me coming from Israel and uh my clients say, oh my god, like none of my daughter teachers talk to us or even care how the day or anything like basic, like you, I'm human.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't I treat you like you're my friend in class.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, oh my god, like I didn't see you for a long time.
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  SPEAKER_00: How have you been?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like I really genuinely care.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's something you cannot fake.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_00: Or what also made me, I think, over the years stand out is my memory.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's say if you told me that your shoulder hurt you and you I didn't see you for a month, I was in school, you were away.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will remember to ask you, how is the shoulder?
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  SPEAKER_00: There's something you can make extra effort, and I genuinely like remember.
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  SPEAKER_00: So maybe I had like a magical memory, I don't know, but it worked.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I make sure that everyone teaches for Nufar Meta today have the same approach towards human and let me help them to want to reach to the full human potential.
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  SPEAKER_01: I love that you show compassion to people when they walk into the studio because I have to tell you, from being a person personally, who hasn't done Pilates in probably 30 years, I would be terrified to walk into your studio.
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  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely terrified.
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  SPEAKER_01: And even for people to walk into a group setting where everyone, it feels like everyone knows each other, everyone knows what they're doing.
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  SPEAKER_01: And nothing is more intimidating to someone who wants to try a new exercise or a new activity and they're walking into a group setting.
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  SPEAKER_01: Quite honestly, nothing is more intimidating.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I will say personally, the first time I took a bar class, the thing that made the biggest impression on me when I took a bar class at a studio in my town the first time was how they treated me as someone who was new.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_01: And they did exactly what you said.
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  SPEAKER_01: They showed me around, they held my hand, they introduced me to the instructor.
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  SPEAKER_01: The instructor got to know me before the class.
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  SPEAKER_01: I came in early.
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  SPEAKER_01: They asked me to come in early.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that whole personal touch, it made it so I came back for years because I was like, this makes a difference because you made my anxiety about trying something new go away.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that I think is so important because there is so much anxiety when you try a new activity, especially when you're talking about exercise.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like it is stressful.
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  SPEAKER_01: So thank you for doing that.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_00: And I want to say I agree with everything you're saying.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure if someone now listened to this, I get it.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_00: It's intimidate to try anything new.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_00: It's intimidate also to try something new when your physical condition where you are now in your life, you're not there to work out hard.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_00: And I really want to say for no format specifically, with the way the method created, with the way the class, group class experience, because correct, it's a group class experience.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_00: Don't judge what you see in a video online.
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  SPEAKER_00: Opposite, I can vouch with my life that anyone, with whatever level they come, that they try before the Pilates machine for the first time, they know how the strap and the spring system work and they come to the format, one you will feel safe, and the other thing you will feel super welcome because part of the, you know, I don't know, again, I'm a very welcoming person to anyone.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_00: Like I love people, and that's like something that I care so much.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if someone knew, we have a complete, like you say in Pure Bar.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_00: I used to take PubRa.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love that the way they welcome me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love that the first the teacher came to say hi to me or help me to move.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're doing all the stuff, and it's important.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's important that the people that come for the first time in any group class, they will have a quite different entry point, correct?
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  SPEAKER_00: If it's from the teacher more catering, and you know, there is a secret, and I will give it to any PLAS teacher.
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  SPEAKER_00: Never let a person that comes for the first time to be in the corner of the room.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_00: Put them in the middle.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you didn't get a blast teacher that cared enough to tell you to go to the middle, go to the middle because in the edge of the class you're supposed to kind of lead side exercise.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's kind of an issue.
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  SPEAKER_00: And say, oh my God, I am the one who lead the class.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the middle, you can watch people from the side.
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  SPEAKER_00: If the teacher has an accent like me or you couldn't hear, and you know, like when people say, Oh, put wet spring and blue spring, it's like all kind of overwhelming.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you know what the other problem?
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  SPEAKER_00: When people lay down, and usually most Pilaris classes start with laying down on a machine and stairs on the ceiling, it's like an automatic thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you lay down, you space out.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you already like not there.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_00: And you already know.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_00: So you have all this element into the thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I really feel so confident to say we got that cover.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's true, the no formatted uh workout meant to be for people that looking for something more.
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  SPEAKER_00: That the way they try the classical Pilates, they feel like the body doesn't change and they look for something more stimulating or more fun or more interesting, right?
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_00: Because we spoke about it when you repeat something, every day the same thing.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_00: It's boring.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_00: And and it's very hard to find this two secrets in workout.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_00: In order to be consistent, it needs to be convenient.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_00: You the workout needs to be very close to where you work, where you live.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_00: Because if you're going out of your way for workout, it's hard to keep it up.
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  SPEAKER_00: And consistently, the workout that you do not only need to be challenging, it needs to be fun.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_00: Fun brings people back.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_00: And the way you make it fun is the teacher that you have have a human connection with you.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_00: And the connection is everything.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_00: And I I say, like, each of a teacher, we have 50 different teachers, have different ways of, you know, they connect with people.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_00: And some people love one teacher versus the other one, and that's the magic of human being, correct?
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_00: We're all about energy exchange.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_00: Like you energetically will connect with me and more than other teachers because of how I made you feel.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_00: And it's vice versa in life.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_00: So I think for somebody new, don't be afraid.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_00: I think Pilaris, especially Pilar's machine, will be an answer for a lot of longevity issues for, let's say, people in my parents' age, my parents in their 70s, all the way in Israel.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, age is a difficult thing to watch, aging.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_00: Like people change your response, your reaction, your coordination change.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_00: And besides mourning the fact that my parents know the same, you know, especially when you don't live near them and you see them once here or twice here, aging like jump in one year, five years, so everything feels even more hard on you.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_00: I solve it and I see a huge transformation.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_00: My mom is 71, and you know, because of life in Israel, it's tough enough.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_00: She didn't really work out, she didn't do much, she stopped doing anything.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_00: And you can see a deterrent in the way she feels, like, the way she walks, the way she thinks, the way really everything.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_00: And I say instead of mourning the woman she was before, or you know, cry about it, do something about it, correct?
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_00: And that's anyone that deals with aging parents in their 70s, 80s.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_00: And what I did, I look for a studio nearby my parents' house so that she can dress walk.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_00: And she has three private sessions a week, and she did it for three months.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_00: Now she doesn't need a private, she can do group classes because she can move along.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the way she thinks, the way she thinks positively, the way she connects to her mind, it's like a completely different person.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now we're in July, as we she started in April when I visited her last time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And besides the fact that I'm proud of her because it's about the choice you make, it's really made me believe that it's not important how old you are.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_00: There is something about this machine that makes the workout one comfortable.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_00: Second, help you to stimulate your body in a way that it will also help your mind.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_00: It's the way you feel after, the effect after.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_00: You really feel clarity to think better.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_00: I, for me, if I the day that I don't wake up early and take care of myself, before I take care of others, is the day that I'm struggling the most.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_00: Like my secret sauce, like to stay here, stable, because you know, people consume my energy is part of my job all day long, is to move my body, any kind of workout, even if I go to a the gym to do like weight training, Pilates class, whatever it is, I need that recentering.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_00: And I believe that people that not thinking that workout it's not for them, or maybe they cannot afford it.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_00: I couldn't afford it back there in the day, like it's hard.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_00: They need to find a way to move their body with someone that one they trust.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_00: So look for that magical teacher that will make you feel safe and understand the Pilates word.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_00: So let's talk about it because something crazy happened, and we should really talk about it.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_00: They say that Starbucks have the most location in New York City.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_00: But listen to that.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_00: Pilates have more location on Starbucks in New York City.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_00: How do you explain it?
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_00: Something happened, correct?
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_00: Like all Those like car intense cardio studios now shutting down.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_00: And I don't know, something with people change.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of people find other ways to stay slim or they, you know, don't go anymore, they don't arch anymore to those like tough intense classes.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_00: We're talking about cycling class, running class, like really intense, sweaty class.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_00: And they find Pilates wherever they are, if they look into lose weight, to maintain the weight, they're looking, whatever their goal is, Pilares has become to be very popular.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_00: But there is like education class, everyone needs to understand.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_00: There is the classical Pilares machine that's being taught in two different ways, very classical, contemporary, that's where I fall into that category because I do it more.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_00: I use the classical Pilaris machine with the element of classical, but I made it more athletic as a workout.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_00: So let's say that if me and you Dean Dan were super flexible growing up, we will be able to do the movement because the machine will work with our body type, correct?
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_00: Like I'm six feet by the way.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_00: Like I cannot fit.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, I'm holding.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_00: I couldn't fit in the air.
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_00: I wasn't comfortable to lay down on the side.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_00: My hip didn't reach to the right place.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_00: Like my shoulder was uncomfortable.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_00: Like the workout meant for people in all sizes.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_00: Like when I teach, I think I'm a media.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_00: Like I think I teach somebody five foot.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_00: I don't, it's like the most selfish way to teach only people in your size, and only people in your size will want to take you because you don't know how to think about other people's sizes.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_00: So that's that level injury.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_00: And the other problem with Pilaris, and I saw it a lot in, you know, I was in Dallas recently, and I saw that a lot of people think that Pilaris is the Legree meta, the mega reformer.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_00: This is like a, I will say, boot camp Pilaris.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_00: Why?
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_00: Because the Legree machine, they got like overfranchised and overproduced in a way that they don't really teach you how to move, they don't give you much physical adjustment, and it's very intense.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_00: So if people say, oh, this looks so hard, but that's Pilaris, that's guys not Pilaris.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_00: Mega Reformer, a Legree method, it's a different way for people that really look for that intensity, but it's quite different.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_00: And until you don't try the two different one, you will not know.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_00: And I feel wherever you are living right now in your life, look for classes because group classes are more affordable.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_00: So let's talk about don't be intimidated by them.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_00: Try every single teacher until you find the teacher that speaks to you and make you feel whatever you want to feel.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_00: And then find the hour of the day that works with your schedule.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_00: That's really a recipe here.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_00: And try the machine, the equipment, whatever they produce, like orange cherry that's rowing, sourcycle that's biking.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_00: Like try to find that kind of equipment, machine that your body enjoys doing.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_00: Like let's think about it.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_00: You have a knee injury, you had a knee replacement, maybe biking will be a better way for you to move than running, correct?
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_00: You'll not go to buried bootcamp, you'll go to soul cycle.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_00: Like it depends where you are in your body.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_00: But Pilates, whatever injury you have or setback you have in your life right now, will help you to find a well-runed workout.
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_00: Because let's say if your knee battery, the good news, in order to get your knee strong, you need to get all the muscle of one strong, your glutes, your quads, your cuffs.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_00: So there's so many other muscles in your body that need to be strained.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_00: And it's important that people will give it a chance.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_00: Especially now that Pirates is everywhere.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_00: Look for a group class for beginner.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_00: Try the machine on your body.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_00: And then come to me if you can.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_00: If you're in New York or Miami, come to me.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_00: I want to change the way you feel about working out.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, I have a really simple question, which might be a dumb question, but if I have it, chances are pretty good some listeners have it too.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_01: What makes a reformer work?
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_01: Like, is it resistance to your body?
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_01: Are there weight settings to the reformer?
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_01: Like, what is making a reformer work specifically?
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_01: Like, how would I use it specifically for me versus someone else?
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_01: Like, does it have weight settings?
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_01: Is it bands?
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_01: Is it resistance?
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_01: Is it your own body?
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_01: Like, explain that a little bit.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_00: So let's talk about the reformer have different resistance.
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_00: But let's let's everyone imagine.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_00: The reformer is a bed with spring that moves.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_00: And when we lay down on it, I can literally weigh a hundred pounds or even 300 pounds, be really overweight, whatever I am.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_00: And we both can do the same movement because you can make it light or easier with the spring resistance.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_00: And what's nice about the reformer, it's carry your body weight.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_00: So let's talk about it.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_00: If I do a plank on the mat right now, which consider a pilaris move, correct?
• 27:18
  SPEAKER_00: To do a plank or done with dog, to do it on the mat, you alone with your own body weight.
• 27:24
  SPEAKER_00: It's actually challenging.
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_00: When you do it on the reformer, the spring are there to assist you.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_00: So if you are very fit, very strong, and you practice in planking a lot, you will lower the spring to have less way to support your body.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_00: And if you need some love and support, let's say I'm pregnant now and I come to Pilates class, you will need more spring to help you to facilitate the movement.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_00: So the machine are there to assist your body.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, got it.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_01: And is it true?
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_01: I remember hearing that Pilates is really good for your core and very good for people that struggle with back issues because it's very supportive for your back.
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_01: Is that true?
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_00: So I can tell you it's not only about your core, it's your entire body, but in Pilates, you we work in so much on your core connection.
• 28:17
  SPEAKER_00: Even when you lay down, you start to activate your core.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_00: Nobody really like makes you feel like that beside the Pilates movement.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_00: And yes, for anyone that feels back pain, and it's almost an average, one out of five feels back pain.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_00: And I've been through a back injury from playing sports for many years.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_00: Pilates definitely is there to support back pain.
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_00: And I think in any joint pain, like your hip, your knees, whatever it is, Pilates can help you not only to heal, also to build the body frame, you need to support the back.
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_00: Like let's take an education class.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_00: Anyone that uh will have a back pain will think that a core, correct, is like the solution to do a lot of uh sit-up, push-up, whatever it is, will help your back.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_00: That's true, core is important because it's the opposite muscle of your lower back.
• 29:11
  SPEAKER_00: But what really will help them is to do a glut exercise and working on your glutes because think about your lower back is sitting on your glutes, and if your glutes are strong enough, your lower back will be less painful.
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_00: And that's really something that we're doing so many glute exercises because I understood that, but a lot of people don't have this like acknowledgement.
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_00: And you know what else?
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_00: So when you ask me what is the difference, I acknowledge you.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_00: I make sure when you are in my life, you're the most smart creature.
• 29:45
  SPEAKER_00: I want you to know why in every movement benefits your body.
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_00: So I during the class, we really explain, we don't just count and exercise, we explain to people why this movement will benefit them, why how this movement can make their back better, the knee better, whatever body part we're working in.
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_00: So acknowledgement and education, it's something that this method and it's my method, really care about because I want people to understand their body.
• 30:16
  SPEAKER_00: Because obviously you love moving, but nobody really in class tells you why we need to do it.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_00: What is the benefit of the movement?
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_00: So acknowledgement, education is another unique part of Nophar method.
• 31:15
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and that's so important, quite honestly.
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_01: Like what you just said about your back and your glutes, I would have never in a million years thought that that was going to be your answer to that.
• 31:25
  SPEAKER_01: So I had no idea.
• 31:27
  SPEAKER_01: And I think education, I feel like I hear a theme here, and I want to make sure I talk about this theme because the theme I'm hearing is that everything you're teaching, the experience, the movements, it's connecting people more to their bodies.
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_01: And the whole process is kind of forcing people to go a little bit inward and have a greater connection to their body.
• 31:53
  SPEAKER_01: And I don't know that that same connection is achieved in other forms of exercise.
• 31:59
  SPEAKER_01: Am I correct in kind of summarizing that I do think that's kind of a side benefit of it?
• 32:05
  SPEAKER_00: Correct.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_00: Definitely.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_00: Uh it's like, so even for your pasture, correct?
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_00: We all want to have as we age, we tend to want, like you can see all the people with the neck one.
• 32:15
  SPEAKER_00: That it's you need to do so much work on your body frame to support this pasture.
• 32:21
  SPEAKER_00: It's not like only work on your neck, on your shoulder mobility, it's everything together.
• 32:25
  SPEAKER_00: Your core.
• 32:26
  SPEAKER_00: Your core supports a pasture.
• 32:28
  SPEAKER_00: So it's very important that you understand that you don't, it's like when you're driving, you know, you cannot look only on the car in front of you.
• 32:35
  SPEAKER_00: You need to look on the car on the side.
• 32:37
  SPEAKER_00: And that's how you need to deal.
• 32:38
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you need to collect all the small muscle that Pilaris really helped strain.
• 32:43
  SPEAKER_00: And if you can find a Pilaris class that does work on lengthening mobility and also on strain to give you some muscle to support your body, that will be a winning class.
• 32:55
  SPEAKER_00: And that's what I'm trying really to see.
• 32:57
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, what the human body needs that I can give them in the workout if they have only one hour a day to work, or they don't have much time, correct?
• 33:05
  SPEAKER_00: It's time is money today, like you have family to take care of.
• 33:08
  SPEAKER_00: So that's really what I did in the class.
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_00: So, yes, no farm method is not 100% classical Pilaris, but it's workout designed to give you everything your body needs in wherever you are, because each movement we can modify for somebody beginning that never been on the machine, or someone that's super advanced that comes three or four times a week in completely different age group.
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_00: Like you, it's what I love about the classes, there's no like a everyone looks like a Barbie with a cute workout set.
• 33:39
  SPEAKER_00: Like you have everything.
• 33:40
  SPEAKER_00: You have somebody in the 20s that, like, you know, God bless that zero.
• 33:45
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they look great.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_00: And then you have somebody in their 70 and the 50.
• 33:49
  SPEAKER_00: And I love how they're working out together, you know, because I work so hard to find movement and you know, any workout that will talk to both of them.
• 33:59
  SPEAKER_00: That both of them find, you know, enjoyable, not boring, and also beneficial that I can break to level.
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_00: So you never say, oh, I'm so sorry if you cannot do it, so just wait a second.
• 34:10
  SPEAKER_00: Like even if you're pregnant, you can do this workout as long as you have the knowledgeable instructor.
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that that's something I would like to add on my fear, and that's you know, because I want to protect people and shield them from mistakes in um pilot such as yoga.
• 34:30
  SPEAKER_00: There's not like a quality control, unfortunately.
• 34:33
  SPEAKER_00: There's no a place that uh check that you got the certification by the book because me and you can now go to get certified.
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, you can do it online and I can do it for one year in person and take every test in anatomy and really like study the human body, and both of us will get the same certification.
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_00: It depends what place is credible and how much you know the person that understood you will care that you have the experience.
• 35:00
  SPEAKER_00: And that's what scared me that in the industry, there's some training program that do training only for two weeks.
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_00: And that's a week supposed to teach you the human body and give you the knowledge how to deal with somebody with injury in class, and that's really sad.
• 35:17
  SPEAKER_00: And I really want the people that never tried Pilares to try to learn a little bit about the place they're going to take a class and see if the person have the, you know, the experience and under the body understanding because that's today a problem in the industry because everywhere, you know, Pilares they come to be like McDonald's, everywhere you go up there, Pilares Studio.
• 35:41
  SPEAKER_00: How do you know that the teacher has enough credential and knowledge, because it's all about the knowledge they have to make you feel safe and give you the best for Pilares experience?
• 35:54
  SPEAKER_00: And that's what I today in beside teaching and uh doing all kinds of uh programming inside the studio because I like to do classes only for men, longevity classes.
• 36:07
  SPEAKER_00: I like to do all those like different uh workshops and experience for people to try.
• 36:13
  SPEAKER_00: I also try to find an interview point for anyone that already teaches or want to learn how to teach, to give them the tools what to do when you have a class that not everyone in perfect shape, correct?
• 36:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 36:29
  SPEAKER_00: And that's really my dream to actually make the environment and the industry of Pilaris safe for everyone.
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_00: Because it's all about who is standing in front of you, they're responsible to your body.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_00: So that's something I kind of now trying to find a way to reach out to more Pilaris teachers to say, okay, you got uh the knowledge that two weeks will give you a certification, and that's the career you want to work full-time.
• 36:57
  SPEAKER_00: I can really give you the tool and knowledge to help you from where you are now to be there, and not only to be there, to be safe and credible in front of people that come to take your class.
• 37:10
  SPEAKER_00: So that's something I felt like necessary now in the industry because there's so many programs, so many studio, and no much control of who is actually qualified to teach.
• 37:21
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 37:22
  SPEAKER_01: I had I had no idea that there wasn't as much control and even just, you know, a certification isn't necessarily.
• 37:30
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it would make sense.
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_01: Of course, it makes sense.
• 37:32
  SPEAKER_01: I just never really thought about it that a certification isn't the same as a certification, it's the same as a certification.
• 37:37
  SPEAKER_01: It's I mean, it does, I'm not surprised, of course, but it's it's a question I wouldn't think as a consumer to ask as I was, you know, potentially trying to start in a studio.
• 37:49
  SPEAKER_01: So I think that's an incredible question to ask for someone who's looking to research a studio is to understand what are the credentials of the people that are teaching there or the people that own the studio if it's a private studio.
• 38:01
  SPEAKER_01: What are their credentials?
• 38:02
  SPEAKER_01: How have they been trained?
• 38:04
  SPEAKER_01: And also what is their philosophy?
• 38:06
  SPEAKER_01: Like you just said, what is their philosophy also for the whole environment?
• 38:09
  SPEAKER_01: And some, I'm sure, are super collaborative and warm like you are, and others, I better not, to be quite honest.
• 38:15
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sure not everybody is charming and lovely like you.
• 38:20
  SPEAKER_00: It's not about that, it's also about the fact that they will care about the person, not about the dollar a month they bring to the studio.
• 38:26
  SPEAKER_00: And I really all about that the people that hear us today and want to try and operate us because they heard us, they will not fall in the wrong studios because you know what?
• 38:37
  SPEAKER_00: That's the studio they fell, and they had a horrible experience because the teacher didn't know what to do with them or they make them feel welcome in the first class.
• 38:44
  SPEAKER_00: And that's not the really the magic of the machine.
• 38:48
  SPEAKER_00: And wherever you are, again, if you can come to me, I would love to introduce you, Pilaris, and also give you the experience that you can look forward to, that you know that you will be safe.
• 39:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 39:01
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, all right.
• 39:01
  SPEAKER_01: So before we run out of time, I do have a question, another like machine question.
• 39:06
  SPEAKER_01: Can you explain what a Cadillac is?
• 39:09
  SPEAKER_01: Because I was really surprised when I went to your website and you said, like you said in the beginning, that half your class is on the reformer and half your class is on the Cadillac.
• 39:16
  SPEAKER_01: And I have to say, I have only seen a Cadillac once in my life, a Cadillac machine, when I was taking private Pilates classes like 30 years ago.
• 39:24
  SPEAKER_01: So every Pilates studio that I've ever walked by or seen online has never had a Cadillac.
• 39:30
  SPEAKER_01: And I could be wrong, maybe I'm not looking in the right places, but what is a Cadillac for people who have no idea what we're talking about?
• 39:37
  SPEAKER_01: And why is the combination of the two so beneficial?
• 39:41
  SPEAKER_00: So let's talk about money.
• 39:44
  SPEAKER_00: It's easier and cheaper to have many before than every Cadillac.
• 39:48
  SPEAKER_00: So a lot of studios just choose for economic reasons not to have them.
• 39:53
  SPEAKER_00: Back in the day, you write anyone that could afford a private session and pay, I don't know, 200-300 bucks for a private session, could feel the and experience the movement that you can facilitate on the Cadillac versus reformer.
• 40:08
  SPEAKER_00: Now, the Cadillac, if you want to picture a very comfortable massage bed and it's going to be attached with metal poles that attach different spring and kind of a way to suspend the body with fuzzies and trapeze and all kinds of things that's hanging on this coming from the top of the machine.
• 40:27
  SPEAKER_00: And what it does to the body, not only is your body in a movement, because reformer is a movement machine, correct?
• 40:34
  SPEAKER_00: You can do open chain exercise.
• 40:36
  SPEAKER_00: Doesn't work for everyone.
• 40:37
  SPEAKER_00: Like if I have vertigo, I cannot go on a reformer, I will feel even worse.
• 40:41
  SPEAKER_00: But the catalog, it's not moving.
• 40:43
  SPEAKER_00: It's meet your body with your size, with your weight, with your height, and you can move away or adjust the machine in a way that it's comfortable.
• 40:54
  SPEAKER_00: Now, let's think about depending on what size you are.
• 40:57
  SPEAKER_00: To lay down on a very low machine like the reformer, maybe it's not easy to have a one.
• 41:04
  SPEAKER_00: If you have a big belly or whatever, or a back issue, it's hard.
• 41:08
  SPEAKER_00: To lay down on a bed that's a height of a higher than your own sleeping bed, or think about really a massage table, it's still more comfortable.
• 41:17
  SPEAKER_00: So start your move your limb after you didn't move or challenge even your body in a way that on the mat you cannot challenge.
• 41:28
  SPEAKER_00: The carilag is for that.
• 41:29
  SPEAKER_00: So that's really the reason why I want people to experience both because I think they both represent the benefit of the classical Pilaris, Joseph Pilaris back in the day, try to introduce to the world.
• 41:42
  SPEAKER_00: I just made the carilag in different approaches.
• 41:46
  SPEAKER_00: I made it more of a workout than a stretch or just mobility and the flow of the movement giving you an effect of a workout.
• 41:55
  SPEAKER_00: Like you feel you did something.
• 41:58
  SPEAKER_00: But you never tire to do more, which is hard to achieve.
• 42:02
  SPEAKER_00: Now, just to be quite honest, since I started to do the Carilag, a lot of other studios, I would say, was inspired to open their own Carilag.
• 42:12
  SPEAKER_00: So you can find it, especially since I opened Miami, I uh felt like I inspire a lot of people to open Carilak classes, but you can definitely find it.
• 42:21
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I'm happy to inspire, whatever you call it.
• 42:24
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 42:24
  SPEAKER_00: More Carilak group classes setting, but it's not as popular because in the end of the day, people think about money, not about people.
• 42:31
  SPEAKER_00: And that's it.
• 42:32
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 42:33
  SPEAKER_01: So just a total technical question.
• 42:35
  SPEAKER_01: Does the whole class go reformer to Cadillac, or is part of the class on the reformer and part of the class is on the Cadillac and then everybody switches?
• 42:42
  SPEAKER_01: It's just a silly question.
• 42:44
  SPEAKER_00: It's not going to be predictable.
• 42:45
  SPEAKER_00: I change it every time.
• 42:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 42:48
  SPEAKER_00: So you never know.
• 42:49
  SPEAKER_00: You choose the teacher that makes you feel safe.
• 42:54
  SPEAKER_00: And then the teacher each time start either on the Cadillac, either on the reformer, there is no, there's nothing you predict.
• 43:00
  SPEAKER_00: Like when you walk into the room and you assign to the teacher and uh they tell you where to go, and then the rest is surprised.
• 43:08
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I love that.
• 43:09
  SPEAKER_00: So you don't predict what's going on.
• 43:11
  SPEAKER_01: But that keeps it interesting, honestly, because that's half the reason why people stop exercising is they get bored.
• 43:16
  SPEAKER_00: Correct.
• 43:17
  SPEAKER_01: They flat out they flat out get bored.
• 43:19
  SPEAKER_01: All right, so I'm really curious.
• 43:21
  SPEAKER_01: What's on your bucket list personally and professionally?
• 43:25
  SPEAKER_00: Personally, I uh can't wait to meet Prince Charming and be a mom soon.
• 43:30
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 43:31
  SPEAKER_00: You know, like I I really am happy with the way my life went with career and everything, and I feel like a new place that I'm ready for that part.
• 43:40
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah professionally, I feel like it's not enough.
• 43:44
  SPEAKER_00: I can learn how to help people.
• 43:46
  SPEAKER_00: Like my mission in life is to make workout experience to anyone, not only people that can afford it, uh can physically do it, like for anyone, it's achievable and and really help.
• 44:02
  SPEAKER_00: Something that I feel like is a draft.
• 44:04
  SPEAKER_00: Like I know with AI it's helped all of us to facilitate life better.
• 44:09
  SPEAKER_00: But I feel like the human connection is kind of drifting more people like talk to a robot than talking to a person.
• 44:16
  SPEAKER_00: And like this lesser attach with people.
• 44:19
  SPEAKER_00: Whatever I do, we I love working with people, right?
• 44:22
  SPEAKER_00: It's like some choice I made since I was young.
• 44:25
  SPEAKER_00: I enjoy it.
• 44:26
  SPEAKER_00: It's fed my heart and soul.
• 44:28
  SPEAKER_00: But I wanted to try to facilitate places to people that can have a real human connection.
• 44:34
  SPEAKER_00: Something that actually will physically adjust them and tell them like it's made me sad to watch how the industry changed.
• 44:41
  SPEAKER_00: Like again, it's about capitalism, about people that see okay, it's much cheaper to.
• 44:47
  SPEAKER_00: To have you come to a studio and follow an online program.
• 44:52
  SPEAKER_00: Like they will not be a physical teacher, even a human being that will teach you anymore.
• 44:56
  SPEAKER_00: And that scare me.
• 44:57
  SPEAKER_00: And if I have any control and mission in the professional world, to not let no farm method or anything I touch or involve with to be involving like that, that's my fight right now, to stay as villa as possible, to not let uh you know franchising and all this like temptation to consume me because in the end of the day, you don't really work with people, you work with machines and people that don't care anything besides money.
• 45:26
  SPEAKER_00: So I want to try to work out on your main connection, inspire other teachers to teach the way I teach and try to help them because you know, like you didn't know about if this course counts and the other course doesn't count, they didn't find out until they did it and they realized I don't know, I cannot teach.
• 45:46
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know what to do with it.
• 45:47
  SPEAKER_00: I got I pay so much money to go to certify, but I don't know how to teach.
• 45:51
  SPEAKER_00: So I want to be a kind of an entity for them that okay, there's a way to get it perfect.
• 45:58
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and you know, just to be a good person, that's always the goal.
• 46:02
  SPEAKER_00: Like never be full of myself that I know it all and learn and involve as a human being and uh keep always an open heart and open mind that whatever in front of me and keep involving.
• 46:15
  SPEAKER_01: Which is so good, a continual growth.
• 46:17
  SPEAKER_01: I love it.
• 46:18
  SPEAKER_01: You are so super inspiring.
• 46:20
  SPEAKER_01: And I do think there, I hear from people all the time, there is such a need for human connection.
• 46:26
  SPEAKER_01: And I think, you know, so much of us work remotely.
• 46:29
  SPEAKER_01: We do so much on Zoom, we do so much online.
• 46:31
  SPEAKER_01: The need for human connection just really keeps growing and it keeps showing up and it keeps appearing.
• 46:37
  SPEAKER_01: And so I think your commitment to really keeping that at the center of what you're doing and creating experiences where people can come together, no matter what your size, shape, age, whatever it is, and they can feel like they're part of a community is really special.
• 46:53
  SPEAKER_01: So I thank you for that.
• 46:55
  SPEAKER_01: All right, just one last question for you.
• 46:57
  SPEAKER_01: Is there anything that we didn't talk about that you want to make sure we covered?
• 47:00
  SPEAKER_01: Did I miss anything?
• 47:02
  SPEAKER_00: I want people that sadly find a therapy in the you know, for their mental health to be open to try a workout as a new form of therapy.
• 47:16
  SPEAKER_00: Any workout you do, any movement, because the moment a person that struggles with stress, anxiety, anything, and they just use it form of medication or going to therapies, or going to all kinds of treatment, and they will try to incorporate or really transform into a workout, I they will find how workout can be so magical to the human mind and to give you a sense of clarity.
• 47:46
  SPEAKER_00: And I do think if more people will start taking what they take in and try to deal with what they're dealing inside in a workout, their life will transform.
• 47:57
  SPEAKER_00: So I please, guys, I know life is not easy.
• 48:01
  SPEAKER_00: I know, you know, everyone going through whatever they're going through, move your body, it will heal your soul.
• 48:08
  SPEAKER_00: Any kind of movement count, even on the mat on your carpet or outside, and whatever you do, move your body because that's the only way you can heal yourself without anything that will not benefit you for the long run.
• 48:23
  SPEAKER_00: So that's my message to everyone.
• 48:25
  SPEAKER_01: And I love that message.
• 48:26
  SPEAKER_01: And it's true.
• 48:27
  SPEAKER_01: I've had so many health professionals on the show.
• 48:30
  SPEAKER_01: And if I ask them, what's one thing someone could start to do today?
• 48:34
  SPEAKER_01: Movement is always handsome.
• 48:36
  SPEAKER_00: Movement is medicine.
• 48:37
  SPEAKER_01: Always the number one thing everyone says is just start moving.
• 48:43
  SPEAKER_01: And it's a mind-body connection, connecting to your body, clarity, helping everything just move within your body, getting your gunk out, getting your energy, getting outside, connecting with the ground, connecting with nature, connecting with other people.
• 48:56
  SPEAKER_01: There's so much that happens as a result of just some movement.
• 49:00
  SPEAKER_01: And if you haven't been moving, I would encourage anyone who's watching or listening.
• 49:04
  SPEAKER_01: If you haven't been moving, don't be intimidated by this.
• 49:08
  SPEAKER_01: We're talking go out and walk for 10 minutes.
• 49:11
  SPEAKER_01: That's it.
• 49:12
  SPEAKER_01: Like start small, start really small and then work up to the big thing.
• 49:20
  SPEAKER_01: It's true.
• 49:20
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you know, it's so true.
• 49:22
  SPEAKER_01: Don't be intimidated.
• 49:24
  SPEAKER_01: And I know we started this conversation talking about how, you know, you go to a website like yours, and there are people on the website that are in the Cadillac and they're like doing the split hanging from this machine.
• 49:35
  SPEAKER_01: And I look at it, I'm like, yeah, okay, whatever.
• 49:36
  SPEAKER_01: Never.
• 49:37
  SPEAKER_01: Never me.
• 49:37
  SPEAKER_01: I can't even touch my toe.
• 49:38
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know, but you're coming to see me next week.
• 49:40
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm excited.
• 49:41
  SPEAKER_01: But it's but the reality is, don't let that intimidate you.
• 49:45
  SPEAKER_01: Just because the experts are doing that on what you see on social media or what you see on a website, that doesn't mean that it can't be for you too.
• 49:51
  SPEAKER_01: So uh, Nafar, I thank you.
• 49:53
  SPEAKER_01: Your energy is amazing.
• 49:55
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody, if you are in Miami or New York, or even if you're coming to visit, come and check out her studio.
• 50:01
  SPEAKER_01: I thank you for all the information.
• 50:03
  SPEAKER_01: You shared so much about Pilates, about the industry, about the things to look for, the beauty of it.
• 50:08
  SPEAKER_01: And I have to say, I haven't done a Pilates less than 30 years, but I cannot wait to come into the city and give your studio a try because I think I will be transformed, not to use like cliche, but I think I will.
• 50:19
  SPEAKER_01: I think I'll love it.
• 50:20
  SPEAKER_01: So thank you so much for joining us.
• 50:22
  SPEAKER_01: It's been a pleasure.
• 50:23
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you guys, and thank you for everyone.
• 50:26
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for joining us for this week's episode of Building the Best You.
• 50:30
  SPEAKER_01: If you are ready to take a deeper dive into transforming your life, check out my Empowerment Fundamentals course on my website, houseofgermar.com.
• 50:39
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you, and I will see you next week with another inspiring guest.