{"id":6110,"date":"2016-05-22T20:01:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T20:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/?p=6110"},"modified":"2019-11-19T15:08:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T15:08:14","slug":"on-the-wunda-chair-because-i-said-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/on-the-wunda-chair-because-i-said-so\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Wunda Chair: “Because I Said So”"},"content":{"rendered":"

During my private session with Brett this week, while we were working a particular Wunda Chair<\/strong> series exercise, he told me to do something specifically and I stopped in the middle and asked, \u201cwhy?\u201d \u00a0In his direct, yet humorous style, he gave me a sigh and said,\u201cbecause I said so.\u201d
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I followed his instruction and we laughed with the comfortable acknowledgement of two things:\u00a0 1)always have respect for the master teacher’s wisdom and instruction and 2) use of the familiar phrase and attitude we both learned from our mother’s.\u00a0 Our respective mothers were strong, black women that each raised children and allowed little room for debate or back talk.\u00a0 \u201cBecause I said so,\u201d was all you needed to know.<\/p>\n

It was Mother’s Week.\u00a0 I call it that, because my mother and great-grandmother were all born the same week of Mother’s Day.\u00a0 Brett’s use of the phrase in this manner was not uncommon with me or anyone.\u00a0 He says it a lot, and usually with a smile and wink.<\/p>\n

Nor was my question, \u201cwhy?\u201d uncommon.\u00a0\u00a0 I told him that my mother told me it was actually my first word. Not her moniker, \u201cmommy,\u201d but the question, \u201cwhy?\u201d\u00a0 It’s not that I wanted to question the authority of either of them, I just wanted to know why the action was chosen or required.<\/p>\n

He got it.\u00a0 I get him. It’s one of the reasons I love working with him so much.<\/p>\n

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Oh and the exercise?\u00a0 It was Pumping One Arm, leading into Side Plank and Twist.\u00a0 I added a little too much \u201cextra\u201d to the side plank movement but did execute the Teaser Twist to his satisfaction. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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