ATTENDING A Pilates class means reckoning with(正视；应对) your own feebleness(虚弱；无力). The Reformer machine—a moving carriage attached to various springs and straps—looks rather like a torture device (and, depending on your instructor's inclination, it can be). The idea is to perform slow, controlled movements such as lunges using springs as resistance; it does not sound too bad. But then, out of nowhere(突然地；凭空出现), you are dripping with sweat and your knees are shaking as if you are performing a bad Elvis impersonation(模仿猫王表演).
参加普拉提课程意味着要正视自己的虚弱。Reformer器械——一个装有各种弹簧和绑带的移动滑车——看起来颇像刑具（而且，取决于教练的喜好，它确实可能成为刑具）。其理念是利用弹簧作为阻力，进行缓慢、受控的动作，比如弓步；听起来似乎并不太难。但紧接着，你会突然汗流浃背，膝盖颤抖，仿佛在拙劣地模仿猫王。
Perhaps it is cool to be humbled, because Pilates—which can be performed on a mat as well as a machine—is absolutely on fire(非常流行；状态极佳) (emphasis on the abs(重点在腹肌)). It was the fastest-growing workout type worldwide in 2025 on ClassPass, a fitness-session booking platform. Earlier this year Google searches for Reformer Pilates hit an all-time high. On social media videos often go viral—particularly ones of muscly men struggling and cursing through a session.(社交媒体上相关视频经常走红——尤其是肌肉男在课程中挣扎咒骂的视频。)
也许丢脸也是一种时尚，因为普拉提——既可在垫子上进行，也可在器械上练习——正火得一塌糊涂（重点在于腹肌）。在健身课程预订平台ClassPass上，它是2025年全球增长最快的锻炼类型。今年早些时候，谷歌上“Reformer普拉提”的搜索量创下历史新高。在社交媒体上，相关视频经常走红——尤其是那些肌肉男在一节课中挣扎咒骂的视频。
MMCG, a property consultancy(房地产咨询公司), has estimated that Club Pilates, America's largest studio franchise, grew from fewer than 50 branches(分店；分支机构) in 2015 to more than 1,100 in 2024. “People are opening Pilates studios the way they opened(像他们开……那样) frozen yogurt places and car washes,” says Maria Leone of Bodyline, a studio in Los Angeles, a city renowned for toned(健美的；线条优美的), beach-ready bodies.
房地产咨询公司MMCG估计，美国最大的普拉提工作室连锁店Club Pilates从2015年不到50家门店增长至2024年超过1100家。“人们开设普拉提工作室的方式，就像他们之前开冷冻酸奶店和洗车店一样，”洛杉矶Bodyline工作室的玛丽亚·莱昂表示。洛杉矶是一座以健美、适合海滩的身材而闻名的城市。
