It’s amazing how I forget so quickly how Pilates makes me feel. At one time I was a regular in a one-hour weekend class. The instructor was a bubbly, chatty woman who followed much the same routine every week and even used the same banter — “That’s cheater-lates” she would say as she demonstrated a move that her students would routinely fudge on. Or when doing the side series of exercises she …

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'Yamaguchi': 1 workout you can't skate through Arizona Republic “We try to motivate each other,” says Yamaguchi, who also remains devoted to Pilates, which she was first introduced to at age 12. Those are the exercises she uses to “rebalance and rehabilitate.” (And they're what she relied on in 2008 to get her body … and more »

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