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This "reformer Pilates" doesn't have anything I'd call flim flam, they are private lessons, the teacher lady asks me questions and instructs me to do various and sundry, mostly stretching in odd ways (to me).  I'd done two of them previously, my wife says I have to stay at it to see a benefit.  I guess.

By "flimflam" or "dressing up" I don't mean that pilates is somehow deceptive or to dismiss it. It's more that they might dress it up with more "spirituality" or "building a mind/body connection" or other sorts of things to make it seem like it is more than simply working out. When it's just working out. 

It's kinda like seeing "Jack's Bakery" and across the street is "Jacques' Boulangerie" and making you think you should go the latter because it seems "fancy". "Pilates" is a exotic-sounding word with and often the workouts will have extra stuff that's basically just dressing up a core workout to make it sound more fancy. 

It seems like it's good exercise and will do good things to build core strength. So I agree with your wife. Stay at it, and you'll see a benefit. 

By "flimflam" or "dressing up" I don't mean that pilates is somehow deceptive or to dismiss it. It's more that they might dress it up with more "spirituality" or "building a mind/body connection" or other sorts of things to make it seem like it is more than simply working out. When it's just working out.

There was none of this, maybe because my wife warned here.  She did talk about the need for different muscle groups to strengthen at similar rates, which I think it accurate.  Any flim flam of ths above and it would be the last time for sure.  It wasn't especially hard, but I was sweating a bit at times.

"We" simply aren't going to go nuclear, not fast enough, not broadly enough, and not basically at all.  China and India and a few others may build a few, but they are building coal plants faster.  Nuclear is not a real option.  Even France briefly talked about shutting their down.  Germany did.

Two new power reactors in GA are coming on line and that's it, maybe some SMRs might happen in a decade or more.

I was in San Diego looking at two fleet carriers docked across from downtown pondering how many folks new four nuclear reactors were a mile away.

There are dozens of reactors that are unfinished across the country.  I don't know how many of those could just be continued, but if they were and the benefits were realized, it would likely get the general population to buy in.

the general population would buy in if the politicians and their money grubbing donors would actually give a damn to do the right thing and let the masses know that nukes are the only solution

by politicians, I mean both parties

let the really worried alarmists that are super gluing their hands to airport runways that nukes are the only feasible option

There were many cancelled but very few ever started construction, one was converted to coal

Zimmer was converted to coal, the rest are dead and gone.