{"id":244417,"date":"2025-07-07T04:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T04:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/244417\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T04:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T04:57:09","slug":"i-tried-1-exercise-loved-by-meghan-markle-and-kim-kardashian-it-was-gruelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/244417\/","title":{"rendered":"I tried 1 exercise loved by Meghan Markle and Kim Kardashian \u2014 it was gruelling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lagree Pilates has become the next big thing in health and fitness. Those who have enjoyed this high-intensity take on pilates include Meghan, Duchess of Sussex<\/a>, Kim<\/a> and Khloe Kardashian<\/a>, and Hailey Bieber. This workout is done on a Megaformer bed, like a typical reformer, but instead of being designed for flexibility and core strength, it has been created for gaining strength, especially in your core.<\/p>\n

While there are now a number of Lagree studios in London, they haven’t quite made it to Manchester yet. However, Re:Sculpt<\/a>, in Ancoats and Salford, offers Maxformer classes with beds that are quite similar to Megaformer but aren’t made by the Lagree brand.<\/p>\n

Signing up for one of these classes, I was rather nervous, and despite having done numerous Reformer classes, I still wasn’t entirely sure what to expect.<\/p>\n

Arriving at the Ancoats studio, I was greeted with a sign displaying the quote of the month: “So tough, but unreal!” and then given a glass of citrus electrolytes.<\/p>\n

And it was here I began to wonder if I had made a mistake. I’ve never before been giving electrolytes before an exercise class and began to worry about what was to come.<\/p>\n

However, it was too late to turn back, and the 5.30pm class got off to a prompt start after a quick introduction to the machines for those of us new to the class.<\/p>\n

In the Re:Tread class, not just the Maxformer beds but also a treadmill are used, with half the class starting on the bed and the other doing sprints.<\/p>\n

I spent the first 20ish minutes struggling my way through the moves on the Maxformer which was so much more difficult than a Reformer, and I found it a lot harder than I did when trying my first Reformer class.<\/p>\n

The studio alternates between upper and lower body depending on the day of the week, and I found myself in an upper body class, which was probably for the best since I still had 20 minutes on the treadmill after finishing on the bed.<\/p>\n

Despite it proving rather difficult, I did enjoy trying out the Maxformer beds and will definitely be returning to a class with these beds in the future.<\/p>\n

Once finishing on the beds it was time to head to the treadmill, something I had been dreading, since the only time I usually run is if I am late for a train (or being chased I suppose).<\/p>\n

I’m also not a fast runner, even on a treadmill, so I had to keep my settings on a rather low speed, which was rather embarrassing when you’re doing a fast jog next to people full-on sprinting. But I mean, it was still better for me than just sitting at home in front of the TV.<\/p>\n

By the end of the class I was exhausted, and certainly in need of a shower. So after picking a protein shake to refuel I head back home.<\/p>\n

While the class was certainly tiring (and my body certainly protested the next day), I’ll definitely be returning to RE:SCUPLT, so I guess the quote of the month proved true after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lagree Pilates has become the next big thing in health and fitness. Those who have enjoyed this high-intensity…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7721,7719,1154,1630,7718,31697,94905,94906,7720,1281,447,7710,519,7711],"class_list":{"0":"post-244417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-duchess-of-sussex","10":"tag-duke-of-sussex","11":"tag-exercise","12":"tag-fitness","13":"tag-harry","14":"tag-kim-kardashian","15":"tag-lagree-pilates","16":"tag-megaformer","17":"tag-meghan","18":"tag-meghan-markle","19":"tag-prince-harry","20":"tag-royal-families","21":"tag-royal-family","22":"tag-uk-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114810181659162482","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}