Shaking isn’t the goal
Nice if it happens. It just doesn’t mean what they told you it means.
Author: Melissa Bates
You won’t find a sauna here
Studios are competing on perks now. Here’s where our effort actually goes instead.
The one thing AI can’t do for you
AI can plan your program, answer your 2am questions, even wear my face. Here’s the line it can’t cross.
The pump you didn’t know you had
Your body has a second circulatory system. It has no heart. What moves it might surprise you.
I hope your motivation doesn’t come back
Every July I hear the same sentence. Here’s why I’ve stopped believing it.
The Gap I’ve Been Living In
I went down to the studio yesterday. Four full classes. And I realised I’d been measuring everything wrong.
The internet is laughing at men in Pilates. They’ve got it backwards.
A video of muscular men shaking and nearly crying on a Reformer has been watched fourteen million times. Everyone thinks the joke is that the strong guy turned out to be weak. That’s not the story.
Women Are Not Small Men: Is Pilates Enough for Strength and Bone?
A fitness professional trained hard for a year and gained 100 grams of muscle. Dr Stacy Sims explains why building strength in midlife is so hard, and Mel gives the honest answer on whether Pilates is enough for your bones, where it isn’t, and what to do about it.
What a cold, dark winter quietly does to your body (and why I keep moving)
It gets dark by five and the couch makes an excellent case. But winter does something to a body that almost nobody notices until spring. After fifteen years as an osteopath, here’s what the cold is really up to, and why showing up matters most in the season you least feel like it.
The one thing we wont put on the website
After a few months of consistent Pilates, most people start to look different. Their clothes fit differently. Their posture shifts. We notice it in members all the time, and we never put it in our marketing. Here are the three reasons we leave it out.