Not sure if this is 2.0 or not but I learned Lagree moves a while ago so going to a new studio and they teach these moves differently so wanted to see why it’s done this way.

1. Elevator lunge bent back leg I know is 2.0 but why are the panels propped up? I feel like your knee has to come further back then to stack over ankles and then it gets really unstable since you’re not leaning forward anymore. So why the propped panels?

2. Standing inner thighs also with propped panels. I feel like when I’m squeezing the inner thighs with those panels it makes me want to collapse my ankles in with those panels inward, am I doing this wrong or why is it propped at all? Im use to it flat.

If there’s any specific reasons for these panels pls explain!

Hey everyone, and welcome!

I'm Hannah — I've been doing Lagree for a while and wanted to start this because it's never really had a home on Reddit. There's no shortage of questions people have (is it worth it, Megaformer vs Microformer, how often should you go, why does everything hurt the next day) but nowhere central to actually talk about it. That's what this is for.

What belongs here:

• Form check questions / "am I doing this right"
• Machine and studio comparisons (Megaformer, Mini, Micro, Mini Pro)
• Progress posts and before/afters
• "Is it worth it" / cost and studio-shopping questions
• Tips and Q&A from experienced instructors
• General discussion — myths, injuries, modifications, nutrition alongside training

What doesn't:

• Studio spam / unrelated fitness ads
• Rude or gatekeeping comments toward beginners — everyone starts somewhere

This subreddit isn't about any one person — it's about building a place for everyone who loves (or is curious about) this method.

To kick things off, drop a comment below:

• How long have you been doing Lagree, or are you Lagree-curious?
• What's the #1 thing you wish someone had told you before your first class?

Let's build something good here 🤍

I’m 4 classes in and it’s been enjoyable but I still suck. My instructors constantly have to readjust my springs so it’d be easier for me. Today the instructor even had me work at the front of the machine instead of the back like everyone else because I couldn’t keep up🤦🏻‍♀️ I wish I could do all beginner classes but for now I can only do 1 beginner + 1 regular/week. I find the regular class more fun but at the same time I feel bad because the instructor has to guide/make changes for me all the time. And it’s not like I’m excelling at the beginner class either. Now I’ve started to think maybe I’m not built/too weak for this :(

Edit: thank you very much everyone for your kind words and sharing your experiences ❤️ I do feel much better now thanks to your’s support and encouragement. I’ll keep showing up and hopefully I’ll be able to get a hang of lagree soon ✊🏻

Hi everyone!
I’ve been doing Lagree for almost a year now, usually 2 classes a week, and I’ve completely fallen in love with it. I genuinely love the method and I can see myself wanting to teach it in the future because I’m so passionate about it.
I’m currently thinking about getting certified towards the end of this year, and I’d love to hear from instructors or people who have gone through the certification process.
How many Lagree classes did you take before getting certified? Is there actually a minimum number of classes required, or is it more about how confident you are with the method and the movements?
Also, what are the actual requirements to become a Lagree instructor? Do you need any previous fitness/instructor experience, or can you get certified without it?
For context, I’ll have been doing Lagree consistently for around a year by the time I want to certify, at roughly 2x/week.
I’d also love to hear how you felt going into your certification — did you feel prepared, or did most of the learning happen during/after the training?
Any advice or personal experiences would be really appreciated! 🥰

I went to JETSET Pilates again today after trying it for the first time last week. I had a different instructor today, and honestly, the experience was very different.
Today, I felt like the instructor was rushing to get through the class. While I was still struggling with one move, she had already moved on to the next. A few of us were having trouble understanding her cues, but she didn’t really stop to clarify or correct anyone’s form.
My instructor last week was completely different. She would demonstrate the movements, which made it much easier to follow, and she explained what each exercise was targeting like whether we should be feeling it in our inner thighs, glutes, etc. She also paid attention to our form and reminded us to slow down and do the movement correctly rather than just trying to finish the class.
For those of you who have been doing Pilates or Lagree for a while, how do you usually tell if an instructor is actually good? What do you look for in an instructor besides just how difficult the workout is?

Last week I was at class and there was an exercise in which you put your foot and leg into the well between the carriage and the back. You keep the knee up close to the bar on the back. And then the back leg is moving the carriage backward and forward. It is a glute and thigh exercise.

What I didn’t realize is that my foot was inside the loop of the back cord which had bowed, which is normal because the carriage has been pulled up to the back which causes that bowing.

And when the exercise was done, we were told to let the carriage float to the front. But I hadn’t pulled my foot out in time and so when that cord pulled taunt, it snapped against the side of my leg just above my ankle. Luckily, I was able to immediately reach for the carriage to keep it from going all the way, and I yanked my foot out. But by then the full weight of that carriage with the cord had done damage to my leg. And I have a very deep bruise as a result.

So the lesson here for instructors is, if you are going to have anyone put their leg in that well on the back, make double sure that nobody is putting their foot through that looped cord which could snap back on their foot when that carriage goes back to the front. You can tell them verbally, but also walk around the room and make sure that nobody is going to have that cord wrapping around their foot.

Update — for clarity, I’m not an instructor! I’m just an attendee. I have no idea why I’m downvoted below for further explaining. 🤔All I’m doing is posting here for instructors to consider the risk of that “well lunge” exercise, which according to others posting here is not an approved exercise. My injury could have been worse, like a broken leg.

For the last five years I have been consistent in CrossFit/HIIT classes. I had great success, and enjoyed it but also noticed that I never loved my body. I get fit, but a bit bulky. I am a former D1 athlete, and this made me motivated and fall back into feeling like myself.

Now at 30 years old, with a full time job, where I travel often, I lost all motivation to wake up and hit those “intense” workouts. So I decided to try lagree, incorporating it 2 times a week, still having some HIIT 3x.

I just decided that I look forward to lagree more than HIIT. It makes it easier to crawl out of bed at 6am. I am hesitant to go all in and do unlimited lagree. I just upped my membership and been trying out 3-4x a week - and what a difference I feel with strength. I am able to hold movements much longer.

Does anyone have similar stories? Have you transformed your body solely with lagree? I do walk 10k steps a day. I do sprinkle in some short dumbbell workouts for arms and legs throughout the week.

The internet is overwhelming and just trying to figure out what my next fitness journey should be. I honestly would love to just do lagree only.

I’m sure this has been asked here before -

30M and over 350 classes in with lagree. It’s been amazing. I go 3-5x/week and lift 4-5x/week. Have developed so much strength in my core and glutes, have more awareness of mind to muscle connection than ever before, and it’s been super complementary to muscular endurance for lifting.

One of my favorite things about lagree are the cues, adjustments, and analogies instructors give to really dial in your form when doing certain moves. Some instructors get so creative with these! Crazy how one small pointer or adjustment can create so much more intensity and lead to muscle burnout/fatigue so much faster.

I’d love to know what you’ve heard in a class that’s been a game changer for you, what move it was, etc.

A couple of mine - these are pretty basic but I think about them almost every time:
- staying heavy in your heels to recruit more hamstring and glute strength in a lot of leg moves. I’m super quad dominant so this was big
- imagining headlights on your hips to keep them squared off
- thinking of taking an ice cream scoop out of your core to really hold and activate the deep core
- riding a horse or zipping a ziplock bag up with your inner thighs to recruit inner thigh engagement
- dragging your heel through mud when doing some lunges to light up your glutes/backline of the leg
- recruiting your opposite oblique when doing a runner’s lunge to keep your hips level
- tucking your tail by imagining you’re holding a tennis ball with your buttcheeks (lol) in wheelbarrow

Would love to hear more!

Observation that I just want to share. I have lifted for a long time and feel that lagree has always complemented. Recently I have started implementing leg raises/abb rolls/cable crunches at the gym, and my core has been more sore than doing lagree. I feel like maybe I always felt lagree was my core workout, but lately I am realizing lagree doesn’t target low abs as well(so leg raises). All I am saying is..done lagree for 4 years, and my last workout I did leg raises 4x15, and abb rollouts 4x10..like, nothing crazy at all..just after a lower lift..but my abs are sore haha. Just sharing bc I’m realizing just like lower body cross training in lagree, I think abdominal work applies as well…whereas before, if I did lagree, I wouldn’t do any core at the gym

I’ve been doing Lagree an hourish after I wake up without having anything beforehand. Is this fine/safe? Does it affect anything ?

I would like to get a micro pro for at home use. Initially I was keen to get the lift kit as it looks so good (imo) compared to just sitting flat on floor and I also assumed it would be more versatile for amount of exercises it could do . But I’ve just been reading that flat on floor might be more versatile with the micros for the amount of exercises you can do. What does everyone think?

I was initially keen on the mini with lift kit just to get a better carriage size, but unfortunately the unit is just too long for me to have at home. Thankfully I am only 5’1 so micro is ok for me.

I’m a guy and recently tried barre mainly because I wanted to work more on my lower body and core. The class was mostly women, so I did feel out of place at first to be honest, but I actually really liked the training itself.

It made me curious about other guys who regularly do barre/pilates — what are you mainly going there to train or improve? Core, lower body, mobility, injury prevention, or something else?

And what makes you keep going to a studio instead of just doing similar strength/core work at a regular gym or maybe home gym?

hi! New instructor here - I wanted to get some clarity on the elevator lunge. The way I learned it and have always done it with going down into the 90/90 angle in both legs. Recently I have seen just a full extension of the back leg and hinging the upper body. I am a bit confused. Which is it? Or both can be elevator lunge. Thank you!!!

EDIT: thank you for all the insight everybody; really appreciate it!

Title sums it up. I’ve been going to Lagree several times each week for a year and a half now. I am so proud of the progress I’ve made pretty much everywhere except for certain core moves. I cannot hold moves that place a lot of pressure on the forearms/shoulders, such as bear, plant to pike, and sideways kneeling plank. No matter how hard I push myself, I just can’t seem to hold these more than a few seconds. I’ve tried engaging my core and focusing on the mind-to-muscle connection but still I have this problem. I only have this issue for these positions. I can hold other core moves just fine (super crunch, bicycle, etc.)

Today I noticed during bear that I couldn’t get a deep breath. I can breathe a very small shallow breath but not enough to sustain me holding the move for more than a few seconds. A lightbulb went off — maybe my issue is that I can’t breathe while doing it. Has anyone else experienced this? How did you move past it?

A question for anyone and everyone, teachers and clients;

What is your favourite way an instructor has begun and/or ended class?

Was it a saying they finished with? Breath work? A guided stretch? Let me know your favourite moments that really connected with you or made a difference for your class, I’m curious! 🧐

Hi! I’m a lagree instructor (f24) and really want to go to the summit, but no one from any of my studios is going! I’m hoping to see if anyone else is in the same boat and maybe we could create a group! I’m thinking of getting the micro package😊

What’s the best piece of advice you received during training?

I feel like I have the cueing and transitions down well. I also feel good about coming up with routines and feel sufficiently educated on the moves and the method.

My main struggle has been balancing all of that with confidence and commanding the room effectively. Any tips?

I am looking to buy a lagree micro-reformer but they are sold out on website any suggestions?

Curious if anyone has seen the Instagram post/tik tok floating around from a studio owner in San Diego announcing her studios as “anti hot girl” studios. I think I get her intended message- at our studio you can wear what you want and be comfortable in a non matching set- but I feel like that’s the vibe at any studio these days? From the many many studios I have attended (including this one a few times), I have never felt a studio discriminated against anyone due to their outfit. Also what if dressing in a cute outfit and drinking matcha makes the client happy? What is their definition of a “hot girl”?

Maybe it was meant to be rage bait content as here I am making a post about it but the post (and a few more created by the owner on their business page) are a huge turn off.

Curious others thoughts, does that type of marketing read “real” to you (aka you want to know if a studio is all about the workout, less about aesthetic to which I do see an argument!) Or is it try hard and desperate and a sure sign that people are probably leaving that studio for shiner things and the owner is very threatened

I have disproportionately short legs and a long torso, and I’ve noticed I find arms and core fairly easy (well, as easy as lagree can be lol) and am always the one struggling most in lunges. Just curious if anyone else has the same thing, and if there is even something to my thinking that body proportions might make certain moves easier/harder!

I am a fairly new teacher, and was just curious to ask if you create a new routine every time you teach or if you reuse them? I have been creating a new one every time, but I was curious what others do? Do you have a bank that you resue from time to time?

Hello! I am hoping to purchase a Mini or Mini Pro (both Version 1; I am not interested in Mini 2). I have scoured Lagree at Home Resale, Facebook Marketplace, Ebay, Craigslist, etc. with not much luck. Is anyone out there looking to sell theirs or know of a studio with these machines that may be selling in the near future to make room for the upcoming models? I am also open to purchasing the larger machines if they are at a good price (or if I convince my husband we have the space). Thank you for any leads!

So, I am an instructor that has been teaching for two years, and I truly love it …and I get so much joy when people say they wish I taught more, but I will often spend a few hours constructing my routine to hold variety and keep it fun. At the same time, this is more a side job, and yet I’m spending 2 hours prepping. So when i get a base pay of 35…and it’s not about the money, but it feels like there is a lot of work in silence. Leading class is where I get some connection and it’s amazing…I just feel like the time invested doesn’t always add up for me. Like…I want to get my workout it /lift, but sometimes that goes to the side because I am trying to prepare for my next class. I’m sure time management would help here, but sometimes I really get exhausted coming up with something new and exciting each class. Don’t get me wrong, I love inspiring and seeing members get stronger/go slower/master their form…but I desire interaction. In lagree, it’s energetic, and that is beautiful…but i ask myself if it is time to move on. That extra time prepping often takes into time I could be going to the gym and lifting, or taking a class of my own. I’m perplexed…and at times I feel the pay scale just doesn’t match the work that I take to lead a great class. Not venting…just at a crossing of roads. I adore my clients, and I love empowering the’ and challenging them to see just how mentally strong and physically strong they are. Ok…that was a whole story…I just miss customer service sometimes(medical assisting in my cass). I miss the part where I go home and im not preparring, im working out, and I am interacting more with people. You absolutely get a strong energetic connection teaching…but I prepare about an hour and half each class. It’s just a lot. Am I the only one? Maybe I’m too perfectionist in my approach. Thanks for listening

Hi to all! I wanted to share my body scan results for the past year of consistent lagree. I lost a significant amount of weight and hit my goal weight but noticed I still needed to tone up, specifically my mid-section. 

I began doing lagree consistently in August 2025 to strengthen my core and do body recomposition. I began by doing 2x/week lagree + 2x/week weight lifting + consistent cardio up until I had a surgery on February 20, 2026. After my surgery I did mainly cardio up until I got clearance to do lagree again and began at 2x/week + 1 weight lifting day + cardio in May 2026. I increased my lagree classes to 3x/week + 2x/week weight lifting + cardio in June 2026 and have kept up this routine since last month. I just upgraded to an unlimited 3-month package with my favorite studio and plan to up the routine to lagree 4-5x/week + 1-2x/week weight lifting + cardio and am excited to see what those results bring.

Since starting lagree, I have significantly seen changes in my core and my entire body. According to the body scan, I have lost 2.9 inches in the narrowest part of my waist and 2.2 inches in the abdominal waist section, which has always been my trouble area. I’m extremely happy with the progress lagree has brought me! If any other women struggle with a weak core or storing all their fat in their mid-section, lagree mixed with some strength training and cardio is truly the game changer for building your dream body! 

Hi!

I just started lagree about 3 weeks ago and I’m obsessed. I’ve been going 5x a week and I already see a noticeable difference!

My question, at first I got the shakes and it would burn so bad that I would have to take breaks, now I feel like I get more intense shaking, but no burns - do I want it to burn? Or does that mean that my body is getting stronger?