Why Pilates works: Part 1

Why Pilates works: Part 1

Pilates is highly regarded as a way of clinically keeping the body healthy, reducing injury, and rehabilitating from injury too. The evidence supporting the use of Pilates in these ways is profound and covers a huge range of conditions from back and neck pain, to...
Progress your push ups

Progress your push ups

Upper body strength is often the area people feel less confident in, and even more so with push ups. There are ways to build up the strength gradually so that you are always achieving something, not just struggling along every time their done in your gym or class....
Why you shouldn’t be planking!

Why you shouldn’t be planking!

Being able to hold a plank for X number of seconds or minutes used to be quite the competitive skill within gyms and fitness contests, but what would you say If I told you that we shouldn’t be planking?! That’s quite a bold statement to make and one made...
Pilates or Yoga?

Pilates or Yoga?

As a pilates teacher who also loves yoga, I want to discuss why these two disciplines are very different! Quite often one discipline comes with a strong following or belief and it can seem controversial to support the other. However, there are also so many...