The majority of endurance athletes accept the idea that strength training is beneficial for their sport. While strength training alone will not replace running, cycling, or swimming, it can supplement your training in terms of injury prevention, correcting imbalances, and improving power for small bursts of speed on hills or at the end of a race.

The most common thing I had mentioned to me upon someone entering the Pilates studio has been – These machines look intense, I don’t think I can use them.

And while many people think of Pilates as yoga on the reformer, it really is a separate exercise system altogether.

Here are 5 things you can expect at your first Pilates class

When most people think about Pilates, they think of it as a core strengthening modality. While that is one of the benefits of Pilates, the best benefit of Pilates, which is not often mentioned, is its ability to reduce injury incidence and increase body awareness.

We have the motor and sensory homunculus – which is a representation of how much brain is devoted to motor movement and sensation for the parts of the body.

By Amie Wang

The first few weeks after just having a baby (whether it’s your first or second or third) can be a blur. It’s also a time when we get concerned about our body and wonder whether it will ever get back to its pre-baby shape.

It’s finally ready! We will be having our soft launch on the 16th of March 2015.

Our largest space yet at 1200 sq ft, we are partnering with Core Concepts to offer physiotherapy on top of our current offerings of Clinical Pilates, group Pilates, pre and post natal Pilates, Zen.Ga and TRX.

Our class sizes remain small at a maximum of 5/class and we will also have a small retail section offering clothes, juice and snacks!

Over the weekend while at a course, I head the term ‘mindfulness for physiotherapy’. The last few weeks we have also been speaking about Zen.Ga and the term I kept coming back to was MINDFULNESS.

The beginning of the year is like a big blank slate waiting to be filled with all sorts of achievements. To help you recover from the holidays and to get back into the swing of things, we have a NEW YEAR CHALLENGE for you!

Holiday season is upon us and many will be traveling home or on vacation. As a doctor in a travel vaccination clinic, Pilates instructor and someone who went for her year end vacation early, here are some tips on hindsight about what should have been done.

After each yoga class, I inevitably get a few comments from either instructors or my classmates going “Wow, you’re so flexible”.

While flexibility and hypermobility may be everyone’s goal – and I do get a lot of questions about how I am so flexible, I’m here to tell you the the story from the other side.

The Reformer JumpStart program introduces you to the most widely used Pilates machine, the Reformer.

A group session with a maximum of 4 people, each client will have a program tailored specifically for them. These classes work like private session, where the instructor will tailor a workout customised to your needs which utilises the entire repertoire of studio equipment. The caveat being that you will have to share the instructor’s attention with 3 other people.

Since we are called Breathe, and breathing is the most fundamental principle of Pilates, we’ve decided to delve slightly deeper into the mechanics of breathing. You would think that something so essential to life would come naturally, but like everything else, most of us have deviated a long way from it.

A lot of people when first tasked with weight loss or body sculpting immediately head for their running shoes to pound the pavement. While it is well known among the fitness industry that cardio isn’t exactly the best solution, all the scientific terms thrown around may be a little overwhelming, so here we’ll explain in layman terms the relation between fat loss (we say fat and not weight because that’s what you want to lose!) and the various types of exercise.