Author: Donna Finnie
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Can You Build Muscle with a Pilates Bar?
When you want to build muscle, you need to incorporate strength training into your workout routine. Pilates is a great way to do this as it not only strengthens the muscles but also increases flexibility and balance.
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Is the Pilates ring any good?
While Pilates can be performed without any equipment, just making us of your own body weight, there is something to be said for adding additional challenge via equipment such as a Pilates ring. What is a Pilates ring? Is the Pilates ring any good? A Pilates ring is good for light resistance training. It allows…
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Can You Do Pilates After Eating?
You can do Pilates after eating, but timing matters. Here is how long to wait, what to eat before and after, and how to modify a session if you misjudged the timing.
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Why Pilates is So Popular and What it Can Do For You
Learn the popularity and benefits of Pilates, a form of exercise that can enhance your health, increase flexibility and help you relieve stress.
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Can Pilates Get You Abs? The Truth About the Core-Strengthening Workout
If you want to get toned, lean and strong, then Pilates is definitely worth checking out, but does it give you abs?
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Can You Do HIIT and Pilates on the Same Day?
HIIT and Pilates complement each other well — one builds cardiovascular fitness, the other builds core strength and body awareness. Here’s how to combine them without overdoing it.
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Do you have to be skinny to do Pilates?
If you’re looking into taking up Pilates I bet all the photos you’ve seen, be it on instructor website, adverts, or in magazines are of very slim people. Does that mean you have to be skinny to do Pilates? You do not have to be skinny to do Pilates. The reason slimness is associated with…
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Can You Do Pilates Without A Machine?
Can you really do Pilates with nothing but your body? Or is equipment required to get results?
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Is Pilates low-intensity?
Concerned that taking up a new form of exercise might be too much for you? Find out if Pilates is low intensity and what that really means.
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What kind of socks do you wear for Pilates?
“What kind of socks do you wear for Pilates?” is a common question asked by new Pilates students.