Pilates Central blog
Lulu: “Pilates helps me stay feeling young”
Posted by Elliot on the 10 April 2013 in General
Lulu has revealed how she likes to keep herself fit and healthy by doing Pilates. The singer, who is 64, admits she finds ageing “tough” but says that looking after her skin, and doing Pilates and dance classes are her ways of making sure she stays feeling young.
Meanwhile, darling of the tabloids Khloé Kardashian has put down her 25lb weight loss to a healthy diet – cutting back on alcohol,...
“The Poetry of Pilates”: is Pilates “poetic”?
Posted by Tim on the 10 April 2013 in General
It might seem like a strange question but Carol Smaldino is an American psychotherapist who argues this week on The Huffington Post that Pilates can, indeed, be poetic.
“I know it to be a source of inspiration about the body-mind connection that I have never felt anywhere else”, she writes.
Of course, concedes Smaldino, there is no simple equivalence between Pilates and poetry… “except...
Pilates classes at 6am. Why not give them a try?
Posted by Elliot on the 10 April 2013 in General
Hollywood star Mila Kounis has revealed how she now attends Pilates classes at 6am, in order to avoid the paparazzi. She got so fed up of being photographed en route to class, she says, that she changed her class times as a way of preventing the Los Angeles photographers from snapping her.
As it happens, we offer classes starting at 6am on Tuesdays and would consider offering them another day...
Tiger Woods credits Pilates with upping his game
Posted by elliot on the 30 January 2013 in General
Spring is on the way, which means that some of you at least will be dusting off your golf clubs and heading for the fairways.
If so, please consider building more Pilates into your exercise plan in order to improve your core stability and improve your swing. Golf and Pilates are great partners, since both are about stability and core strength. This is probably why a host of top golfers,...