Popular Barre Pilates makes muscles scream
WRAL.com
Lauren Rosella's exercise class at Rex Wellness Center in Garner looks like many other fitness routines that incorporate light hand weights and floor work on mats. Her students focus on controlled breathing, keeping their bodies steady while they …

Pilates franchise to open Cahaba Heights studio
Birmingham Business Journal
Club Pilates – the nation's largest and fastest-growing Pilates franchise – has announced it will open its first Alabama location in Cahaba Heights in October. The new studio will be located at 3169 Green Valley Rd. in Cahaba Heights, according to a …

Nation's largest Pilates franchise to open Cahaba Heights studio
Birmingham Business Journal
Club Pilates – the nation's largest and fastest-growing Pilates franchise – has announced it will open its first Alabama location in Cahaba Heights in October. The new studio will be located at 3169 Green Valley Rd. in Cahaba Heights, according to a …

Piloxing Barre: A winning dance, boxing, and Pilates hybrid
Marinatimes
In a Piloxing class, participants wear one-half-pound weighted gloves and perform boxing moves with their arms while also doing some traditional Pilates movements, such as forearm planks in an interval-based format. According to Jenson, Piloxing can …

Yoga or Pilates? Exploring Miami's Paddleboard Workouts
Racked Miami
Pilates or yoga? Fitness decisions can be hard, especially when they involve stretching under the sun on a paddle board. Yes, your favorite weekend water activity can be amplified with sun salutations or spine twists, but how do you decide between either?

Pilates versus Weight Training
Magazine of Santa Clarita (blog)
With Pilates, rather than dangerously recruiting other muscles, you are taught to use your stabilizer “core” muscles to brace and counteract against the destabilizing effects of the weight being lifted. This method of exercising is described as the …

Pilates: 'A nice way to mix it up'
Pamplin Media Group
At Gloria Hammer's Pilates studio in the South Portland neighborhood, it all starts with breathing. A full belly breath in, a full belly breath out. Lengthen the spine, set the feet shoulder-width apart and breathe. The smooth rhythms of Pilates weren …