by Tracy Ward | Jan 15, 2021 | Blog Updates, Health & wellbeing, Pilates
Pilates is highly regarded as a way of clinically keeping the body healthy, reducing injury, and rehabilitating from injury too. The evidence supporting the use of Pilates in these ways is profound and covers a huge range of conditions from back and neck pain, to...
by Tracy Ward | Dec 27, 2019 | Blog Updates, Fitness
Upper body strength is often the area people feel less confident in, and even more so with push ups. There are ways to build up the strength gradually so that you are always achieving something, not just struggling along every time their done in your gym or class....
by Tracy Ward | Aug 9, 2019 | Blog Updates, Fitness
Being able to hold a plank for X number of seconds or minutes used to be quite the competitive skill within gyms and fitness contests, but what would you say If I told you that we shouldn’t be planking?! That’s quite a bold statement to make and one made...
by Tracy Ward | Jul 5, 2019 | Blog Updates, Fitness, Health & wellbeing, Pilates
As a pilates teacher who also loves yoga, I want to discuss why these two disciplines are very different! Quite often one discipline comes with a strong following or belief and it can seem controversial to support the other. However, there are also so many...
by Tracy Ward | Mar 14, 2019 | Blog Updates, Fitness, Pilates
Strength training has become a huge part of life for many people, from the gym junkie, those who just like to keep fit, those rehabilitating injury, those combating mental health, and those using it as an adjunct to their sport. Lifting weights ticks all of these...