How Pilates Has Been Rebranded as the Ultimate ‘Hot Girl’ Workout

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, a 20-year-old college student from Orlando, changed the way she works out. She had thought the best way to get the results she wanted was lifting heavy in the gym, burning out her muscles to the absolute max.

But it didn't work for her.“After a few months to a year of doing this, (I'm sure other women can relate)…my hunger cues, cortisol levels, body, and looks were not on point,” she tells Glamour.But then, she found a new workout.“I decided to sign up for Pilates and I've never felt better,” she says.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.You may have heard this before, maybe from your friend who is always on the latest trends or that influencer you devotedly follow.

And it's not just your circle. All the are doing right now.Everywhere you turn, it seems a new It Girl, from celebrities like , , and to the normal trendsetters in everyday life, are putting down their weights, hanging up their cycling shoes, and suddenly swearing that their bodies have never looked better since they became full-throated devotees to the Reformer.Hailey being papped leaving Pilates.Workout trends are cyclical and seem to bend to the wind, almost at random and virtually overnight.

For many years, it seemed like every young woman was espousing the virtues of yoga, insisting they had found a higher plane of mental acuity by spending an hour in a heated room chanting and bending.