Category: Pilates

  • Farnham Pilates – Stronger Saturday – Focus on Lifestyle for Bone Health

    Farnham Pilates – Stronger Saturday – Focus on Lifestyle for Bone Health

    Bone density and lifestyle This month at Farnham Pilates we’ve been focusing on helping clients improve their bone density and bone health. This week we look at lifestyle changes you can make to improve your bone health. These assume you do not have problems with your bones; if you do, please talk to your GP…

  • Best Foods for strong Bones from Farnham Pilates

    Best Foods for strong Bones from Farnham Pilates

    Farnham Pilates Weekly Blog –Get Stronger Saturday Best foods for strong bones Here is your weekly post on Bone health. A few Osteoporosis/Bone Health Facts and FiguresBone remodelling is a lifelong process, but unfortunately bone loss starts to outpace bone gain as we age.  This starts to happen around aged 34 when peak bone mass…

  • Pilates keeps your bones strong

    Welcome all, Here is your weekly post to get your body and mind motivated for the week ahead. Each week we’ll send out exercises and a healthy recipe for you to focus on and why. If you have any specific areas of your body that you would like exercises for please message me and I will try and include it in the…

  • Small is beautiful – benefits of small Pilates classes

    After Easter I’m moving all the classes to the Garden studio. After 10 years of teaching I really feel that in the smaller classes clients get more individual attention and we can focus the class on particular problems and help with assisted stretching. Here is some feedback from my students on the smaller classes we provide…

  • Focus on Farnham Pilates Teacher – Sara Rounce

    This weeks blog is a focus on one of our lovely teachers at Farnham Pilates, Sara Rounce. Sara teaches in the studio on Thursdays. She trained with The Pilates Institute in London back in 2003 and has enjoyed a varied career teaching classes at all levels and abilities as well as pregnancy, postnatal and seniors.…

  • 5 steps for busy mums to feel, good, fit and healthy

      At the start of any New Year there is so much pressure on us to make sweeping changes, lose weight, eat more healthily, do more exercise. Whilst all this is great and having goals is a great thing to motivate us, if you are busy Mum so much pressure and big targets to achieve…

  • How to keep motivation high to keep your Fitness New Year Resolutions!

    If you have made a New Year Resolution you will know the hardest part is keeping them! Here are my top tips for making sure your resolutions become a way of life. 1. Incorporate more activity into your daily life. Actions speak louder than words and even small changes can make a huge difference. Don’t…

  • Secrets of a Pilates Instructor – My top 6 Pilates exercises to keep me moving

    At this time of year finding time to exercise can be hard and with our regular classes closed for the holidays, it can be easy to just not bother.  But just doing 10 mins exercise each day can really make a difference, keep your fitness levels up, and make you feel better overall during a time…

  • Heated Pilates

    We are delighted to announce that we are adding Heated Pilates to our timetable at Farnham Pilates from January, 2016. But what is Heated Pilates? Heated or warm flowing Pilates is an effective workout in a warm environment. The class uses the benefit of heat to help muscles into muscles more deeply and effectively and…

  • Pilates and Massage – a Perfect Match

    Pilates and Massage – a Perfect Match

    I’m sure I’m not alone in loving a good massage. It can work so well with Pilates clients who combine Pilates for strengthening and massage for relaxing tense muscles. Massage and Pilates really are a great match. This week we have a guest blog from deep tissue and hot stone massage expert Aase Waterman. We…