Limitless Pilates

There are a few openings for classes tomorrow/Friday May 15 at 8:00 and one opening at 9:00. Text Jamie if you’re having issues with MindBody.

Scroll on by if you are squeamish or vegan. This post is a little sad, too. If that’s not what you’re looking for right now, skip this one.

My uncle’s ashes were spread at my grandparents’ gravesite a month or so ago. He passed away in his sleep mid-February. Uncle Jack didn’t suffer, just didn’t wake up one morning, not a terrible way to go, still very sad though.

My favorite conversation we had was about 25 years ago while I was taking gross anatomy during PT school. He asked me if I knew what muscle was the human equivalent of the beef or pork tenderloin. I should mention he was a butcher for Schnucks for over 40 years. He wasn’t a total weirdo. Wanna know how the hamstrings got their name? I also learned that from Uncle Jack.

The Psoas muscle is the human equivalent of beef/pork tenderloin. And the hamstrings are the muscle by which a meat cutter/butcher strings up a ham/pig to drain it/prep it. The meat hook goes right behind those three tendons at the knee. Gross. I didn’t eat meat that whole summer of gross anatomy.

—JMM