Outtake – Is Your Posture Giving You Pain?

March 26, 2010

In my quest to deliver even better quality Pilates videos I have been working on Chroma-Key technology. This involves filming Carol with a solid colour in the background. With some technical magic it’s then possible to remove the background and place her inside another video clip. That’s how in our Beginners Pilates Workouts videos I’m [...]

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Pilates For Beginners – Is Your Posture Giving You Pain?

March 25, 2010

I’d like to talk to you about Pilates; what it’s done for me and how it could benefit you too if you take it up and practise the exercises regularly. Put simply, Pilates has banished my pain; the muscle pain I have held in my neck and back for years. The pain that was the [...]

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Palates – A New “Ates”?

March 22, 2010

It never ceases to amuse me the number of ways clients ask me about Pilates. From “Do you do Pilots classes” to “I’ve heard about Palates do you teach it”. I get quite a number of visitors to this site who type in “Palates” so I’m not complaining I just hope they weren’t looking for [...]

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Equilates – An “Ates” Too Far?

March 13, 2010

I’m going publish a page with all the “Ates” listed soon. My guess is it will be a big one One of the latest I’ve found is Equilates – can you guess what it is? Yup it’s the horsey equivalent of Pilates. According to people running this type of class to get the very best [...]

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My Pilates Has Moved

March 8, 2010

We’ve moved the MyPilatesForBeginners Web site to a new home. The old one was getting slow and very unreliable. You should notice that pages now load quicker and your experience much improved. The videos on the subscription site have been moved to Amazon S3 so they should load much quicker and play back more smoothly. [...]

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Pilates For Beginners Meets Victor Meldrew!

March 7, 2010

I’m sure Bob is becoming more and more like Victor Meldrew every day. The only thing needed now is for him to say “I don’t believe it” and he’s there. Pilates Instructors are supposed to be relaxed and chilled out – don’t you believe it. He would of course blame me but I’m innocent I [...]

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Pilates For Men – That’s a Laugh

March 6, 2010

Rumour has it that some Pilates studios are not allowing men into their classes. Why that would be I’ve absolutely no idea at all. Our problem is getting men to actually Try Pilates. Out of about 100 people we teach in a week the number of men that turn up is about 3-4. So only [...]

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Beginners Pilates Program – At The 300 Hour Point

March 2, 2010

When Carol and I first started thinking about a Beginners Pilates Subscription Program we knew it would take a lot of work. What we hadn’t realized was just how much! In hindsight it was just as well because if we had I really don’t believe the program would have been born. To date we have [...]

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Beginners Pilates – The Zip and Hollow

February 25, 2010

This exercise is the most important technique in Pilates that you can learn, in our opinion. I wouldn’t call it difficult, but it can be tricky to get the hang of it at first – it’s a bit like learning to pat your head and rub your stomach at the same time – but once [...]

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Pilates, Cindy Crawford And 43!

February 16, 2010

Cindy Crawford has reached 43! Now from my point of view that’s young but this Mother of two could easily pass for someone half her age. She attributes her incredible figure to regular exercise including Pilates. So can we assume that she looks this good because of Pilates? I doubt it, Pilates is fantastic but [...]

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