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Pinot & Pilates NYC @ Pilates on Fifth

Every Thursday!
6pm to 9pm
11/29 to 12/27

Join us every Thursday after Thanksgiving until New Years and enjoy your favorite Pinot after your lesson! Sign up with your friends have a great workout, and enjoy the grape while gathering information about health, Pilates and overall wellness.

Our First Unboxing Video For Our New Book

A Simple Hack to Help You Look Thinner

In this current fitness climate that seems to focus overwhelmingly on sheer calories burned, what's often lost is attention to the smaller, stabilizing muscles that both protect the joints (including the spine) as well as produce better posture.

No matter how you slice it, running is a repetitive sport.  In fact, it's about as repetitive as it gets!  Certain muscle groups are massively over-worked (leg muscles, superficial abdominals, front of chest) while others are woefully neglected (glutes, upper back muscles and deep core).  Pilates is excellent for realigning and rebalancing the body; however, a typical Pilates class might not be the best medicine for runners.  A typical Pilates class involves A LOT of hip and torso flexion, and this might leave runners feeling more imbalanced than when they came into class. 

You’ve been sitting at your desk for a few hours at your computer and on the phone. Your neck, shoulders and back feel super stiff, but your scheduled workout is hours away. What do you do? We have the answer for you: door frame stretches!

Workout at WORK! A mini-workout/stretch sequence that you can do even on your busiest work day. "I don't have time to workout" is a lamentation that we hear all too often. But many don't realize that even a mini workout can be effective on physiological, biomechanical and psychological levels. A short, ten minute workout can stimulate the heart rate (and that means fat burning) and revitalize your mood. The simple and practical stair stretches (that you can do in a stairwell) will restore alignment and relieve tension.