Pilates Central blog
Harry Styles of boy band One Direction takes up Pilates to improve his posture
Posted by Elliot on the 24 February 2012 in General
Men of all ages are now taking up Pilates.
The latest recruit is Harry Styles, 18 year-old star of the boy band One Direction. He has just started doing Pilates on medical advice, as a way to improve his posture and help him stand taller.
Styles attributes his need for Pilates to the paper round that he did as a lad. “I have bad posture and I've been told to take Pilates once a week”, he...
More and more of our clients are men
Posted by Elliot on the 24 February 2012 in General
Roughly a quarter of all Pilates Central clients have been male since we started the studio in 2004. But what’s interesting is that the proportion is steadily growing.
Over a third of our new clients are now male. Some days the studio contains as many men as women. Indeed, many couples attend together. Husbands are welcome.
From Daniel “007” Craig to David Beckham, Ryan Giggs, Hugh Grant and...
Is this a record? We have STILL not raised our prices
Posted by Elliot on the 24 February 2012 in General
Some of our clients are not old enough to remember the last time that we raised our prices. In fact, it was over four years ago. Tony Blair had barely stepped down as Prime Minister, while “President Obama” was but a gleam in the eye of the American electorate.
We have not raised our prices since, despite rising inflation. Unlike most businesses, we did not raise them last year when VAT rose...
Was New York’s Super Bowl win all due to Pilates?
Posted by Elliot on the 14 February 2012 in General
Was Pilates the secret training weapon of the New York Giants – the one that bagged them a surprise victory in the Super Bowl earlier this month?
The publishers of Pilates Style magazine are not claiming for a fact that it was but they are pointing out that R.W. McQuarters, cornerback of the Giants, revealed his Pilates routine to the magazine back in January 2008.
At the time McQuarters...