From the category archives:
Woo Hoo Bob has the Pilates For Beginners membership site 100% fixed. What a marathon that was and it wasn’t even our fault! All the strange error messages that you might have been getting when loging in have gone and the site is functional again. Thank you all for reporting the problems because without you [...]
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I’m tearing my hair out and my husband is muttering under his breath as I speak! The Problem My Web hosting company for some strange reason known only to themselves decided to upgrade PHP to the latest version 5.3.3. Sounds fairly harmless right? Wrong. My membership site software which is fairly complex (a purchased product) [...]
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I’m weak! After holding out on the Facebook craze for many years I’ve finally decided to embrace it and use it as a platform for delivering Pilates information to my local clients as well as the rest of the world Face book makes it super easy for me to post videos, pictures, articles and for [...]
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Well after all this is my website so if I want to give myself a shameless plug then I can right? As well as being a Pilates Instructor I’m also a Personal Trainer. Now I live in the UK so the likelihood of anyone reading this post and living near enough to me to want [...]
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Well least it is for me. Rumour has it that some people are doing Pilates naked. Yup that’s right doing Pilates with no clothes on. Now call me old-fashioned but I really don’t like the idea very much. I’ve had some bad experiences whilst people are fully clothed nevermind naked. Why people insist on coming [...]
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Ever since I saw an advert that claimed pole dancing was the latest fitness trend and that it would release my inner goddess I wanted to train as a pole dancing instructor. Now you may be wondering what’s strange about that? Well it wasn’t Carol that wanted to do it it was me Bob! I [...]
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Most people when they take up a new exercise regime are usually looking for a particular outcome. Working out, cardio exercise and strength training are usually taken up by people who want to lose weight. In a lot of cases once they have reached their weight-loss goal they stop or reduce the amount of exercise [...]
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I think of all the “Ates” Yogalates was probably one of the first. As the name suggests it is a combination of Yoga and Pilates. I find this one barely strange because if one researches Pilates and how Joseph Pilates created his exercise system it’s obvious that he borrowed exercises from many different disciplines including [...]
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Why is it that Pilates Instruction always gets the blame? It’s very odd but I get this a lot. It goes something like this. At the beginning of all my Pilates classes I ask everyone if they have any injuries I need to know about. I then listen and decide whether they can do the [...]
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As you know I’m on a quest to discover all the Pilates “Ates” variations. I’ve found more than I believed possible and I’m going to list them here. If you find one I’ve not listed leave a comment and add it. Mamalates Pilates for mothers who have just had a baby and want to regain [...]
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