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Tips, benefits and honest answers from the studio floor. A new article every day.
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Hybrid training: why Pilates is the piece people are adding
Mixing strength work and cardio across one week is the training style of the moment. Where Reformer Pilates fits, with sample weeks to copy.
Getting Started
Reformer words decoded: a beginner's glossary
Carriage, footbar, neutral spine and tabletop. A plain-English guide to the words you will hear in your first month of Reformer Pilates.
Moving Well
How to bend and lift well with a hip hinge
The hip hinge is the movement behind picking up the washing basket or a child. How to learn it, and how Pilates builds the strength behind it.
Getting Started
Trial finished? How to choose the membership that fits your week
A plain comparison of the membership options after your 21 day trial, with the per-class maths and the terms worth knowing.
Health & Wellbeing
Back to exercise after a baby, one stage at a time
A gentle, stage by stage guide to returning to exercise after birth, the moves to hold off on, and where Mums & Bubs classes fit in.
Benefits of Pilates
Pilates and balance: why steadiness is worth training now
Balance is a skill you can train at any age. How the Reformer builds steadiness, and what the research says about exercise and falls.
Yoga
A 15 minute yoga routine for the nights between classes
Eight beginner friendly poses you can do on the lounge room floor to ease stiffness and help you wind down before bed.
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From classical to Lagree: the Pilates offshoots explained
The Pilates name now covers a lot of different styles. A plain guide to the main offshoots, how they differ and who each one suits.
Benefits of Pilates
Body awareness, the Pilates benefit you feel first
Long before your posture or strength changes, Pilates teaches you to feel what your body is doing. Why that matters in and out of the studio.
Getting Started
Coming from the gym? What to expect from Reformer Pilates
Lifters often expect Pilates to be easy. What is different on the Reformer, and the mistakes gym regulars make in their first few weeks.
Moving Well
Getting down to the floor and back up again
Sitting on the floor and standing back up is a skill worth keeping for life. Why it matters, how to practise it safely, and how classes help.
Health & Wellbeing
Australia's movement guidelines, and where Pilates fits in your week
What the national guidelines ask adults to do each week, which parts a Reformer class covers, and which parts happen outside the studio.
Benefits of Pilates
Why reformer Pilates builds strength you can actually use
Spring resistance trains the way your body moves in real life. What that means for lifting kids, gardening and getting off the floor with ease.
Getting Started
Three weeks on the 21 day trial: how to get the most from it
A simple plan for trying different classes, instructors and both studios.
Benefits of Pilates
Training for longevity: why Pilates suits every decade
From your twenties to your seventies, the reformer scales with you. What changes at each stage.
Health & Wellbeing
Menopause, bone density and resistance training
Where reformer Pilates fits in protecting strength and bone through midlife.
Moving Well
Why your instructor keeps mentioning your pelvic floor
What it is, why it matters for everyone, and how Pilates trains it.
Health & Wellbeing
Pilates during pregnancy: what is safe and what to change
Trimester by trimester guidance, and why you should tell us you are expecting.
Yoga
What a weekly yoga class adds to your Pilates practice
Mobility, breath and balance. The case for mixing the mat into your routine.
Benefits of Pilates
Pilates for better sleep and a calmer nervous system
The link between focused movement, breath and switching off at night.
Health & Wellbeing
Rest days that actually make you stronger
Recovery is training too. How to use Stretch classes, walks and sleep.
Moving Well
Coming back from injury? How Pilates supports rehab
Working around knees, hips and shoulders, and how to talk to your instructor about it.
Health & Wellbeing
Why athletes are adding reformer Pilates to their training
Runners, surfers and footy players are on the reformer. What they get out of it.
Health & Wellbeing
Eating around a 5:45am class
What to have before and after an early session, without overthinking it.
Moving Well
Jumpboard basics: cardio without the impact
How Jump classes raise your heart rate while your joints stay happy.
Benefits of Pilates
How Pilates makes you more flexible without hours of stretching
Strengthening through a full range beats passive stretching for most people. Here is why.
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Wall Pilates went viral. How does it compare to the studio?
What the TikTok trend gets right, what it misses, and when an instructor matters.
Moving Well
Why footwork starts almost every reformer class
The quiet warm-up that sets up your knees, hips and ankles for everything after.
Benefits of Pilates
What eight weeks of Pilates does for your posture
The changes members notice first, why they happen, and how long they take.
Getting Started
How often should you do Pilates? A realistic guide
What one, two or four classes a week each give you, and how to build the habit.
Yoga
Pilates and yoga: the differences, the overlap, and why we teach both
A clear comparison for people deciding where to spend their week.
Moving Well
Slow is strong: why Control classes build the best foundations
What slowing down does for technique, and why advanced members still book Control.
Health & Wellbeing
The desk worker's guide to undoing a day of sitting
Five habits plus the classes that reverse tight hips and rounded shoulders.
Getting Started
What all those springs actually do
A beginner's guide to reformer resistance and why lighter is sometimes harder.
Benefits of Pilates
Does Pilates help with weight loss? An honest answer
What classes burn, what they build, and the role of muscle in how you feel and function.
Moving Well
How to breathe in a Pilates class
Lateral breathing explained simply, and what it does for your core and your calm.
Benefits of Pilates
Pilates and lower back pain: what the research says
Why controlled movement helps stiff and sore backs, and which classes to start with.
Getting Started
Six ways to move: how to pick your first TPW class
Control, Flow, Tempo, Jump, Yoga or Stretch. A friendly guide to where to start.
Getting Started
Nervous about starting Pilates? Read this first
Every regular was new once. What our members wish they had known before class one.
Benefits of Pilates
What core strength actually means
It is more than abs. How a strong trunk changes the way you walk, sit, run and lift.
Trending
Why Pilates became the world's most booked workout
The numbers behind the boom, and what people are finding when they arrive.
Getting Started
Your first reformer class: what to expect and what to wear
A walk-through of the machine, the springs, the grip socks and the first ten minutes.
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