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I was very pleased to read George Ford\u2019s \u201cconfession\u201d that \u201cin recent months I\u2019ve been doing a lot more pilates\u201d (George Ford turns down R360 riches for last shot at England World Cup glory, 15 October).<\/p>\n
In the last six years, so have I, and I wish that I\u2019d discovered pilates 50 years ago when I was playing rugby; I\u2019m sure I would have recovered more quickly from injuries and maintained a higher level of fitness with a much stronger \u201ccore\u201d, so essential in such a physical sport.<\/p>\n
But pilates and the male psyche don\u2019t seem to connect, unfortunately, as the classes I went to had about a 10:1 ratio in favour of women. So, thank you, George. I hope your example can encourage other men to give pilates a try. Don\u2019t forget: it was invented by a bloke. Your encouraging article on walking football (The beautiful stroll: England\u2019s seniors take walking football to world stage, 17 October) omits to mention the risk of damaging knees, one of which my husband (78) has indeed damaged in playing this game. I understand from a nursing friend that this is very common among hospital admissions. The recommended treatment? Rest, then gentle physio, with recovery time of six months to a year. He is missing the camaraderie and other benefits also from playing walking rugby. Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please <\/em><\/strong>email<\/em><\/strong> us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our <\/em><\/strong>letters<\/em><\/strong> section.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was very pleased to read George Ford\u2019s \u201cconfession\u201d that \u201cin recent months I\u2019ve been doing a lot more pilates\u201d (George Ford turns down R360 riches for last shot at England World Cup glory, 15 October). In the last six years, so have I, and I wish that I\u2019d discovered pilates 50 years ago when<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[2419,1329,17269],"class_list":{"0":"post-29190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-lot","9":"tag-men","10":"tag-pilates"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Tim Heavisides<\/strong>
Church Stretton, Shropshire<\/em><\/p>\n
Margaret Evans<\/strong>
Finstall, Worcestershire<\/em><\/p>\n