Sorry to say but it is that time of year when an extra drink or 2 seems like a good idea until the following morning and as we all know the recovery time is so much longer the older we get! So when your reaching for the alka seltza and heading for the couch bear [...]
Can Pilates Help With My Tension Headaches ?
Can Pilates help with tension headaches? I think the answer is yes! Use our ipilates workouts to learn how to use the deep muscles that should be supporting your upper body and release those muscles that should be used to move your neck and shoulders. The combination of the basic principles of alignment, breathing and using [...]
Pain Management On Long Car Journeys
As a physiotherapist and Pilates teacher at The Physio & Pilates Centre in Wilmslow, I often get asked by clients to recommend pain management solutions for different situations. Most recently I want to share with you a conversation I had with a regular Pilates client at the studio about how to avoid low back pain and [...]
PizzaExpress Wilmslow
As a family we frequently eat at PizzaExpress in Wilmslow. It has always been a venue that managed to bridge the gap between providing food that children would eat and an environment that adults could feel like adults in rather than children’s entertainer. However, despite the nice location and bright and cheery space, in recent [...]
iPilates and Starting That Weight Loss
Following on from Tracey’s blog about Pilates helping with weight loss I would like to add an experience directly from the studio. Recently a woman in her early 30′s came to see me on recommendation from her GP. She had been told she needed to lose weight for her health and had started well by [...]
Bill Gates Rules For Life
Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about ten things teenagers will not learn in school. He spoke about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation with no concept of reality and how this set them up for failure in the real world: Rule 1: Life is not fair – get [...]
Breast Cancer Awareness Month – You can Help !
Here at iPilates we have been wondering how to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month and we think we have come up with a great idea. We are all busy getting our gardens ready for Winter, and that means hard work outside, unfortunately this can lead to some serious backache. Julia has created a great half [...]
My Breast Cancer Story by Tracey Corcoran
In 2007 I was a busy and happy working Mum. I had retrained, following the birth of my second son, as a Pilates teacher and I finally felt I had the work/life balance close to perfect. The nature of my job meant that I was exercising for around an hour each day and I have [...]
iPilates to launch a New Way to Exercise at Home
We have been working hard for the past year to bring you the very best in Pilates exercises for you to do at home. The feedback we have had has been wonderful, so thank you to all our lovely customers who have bought our workouts. However, many of you have explained that you have not [...]
Success for ‘China’s got talent’ amputee pianist
Did anyone else see this? It’s amazing! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11106935 Now you have watched it how about doing some exercise, ipilates always a good bet