When Pilates springs to people’s minds, it is often thought of as the ‘lazy girls’ yoga something steered towards the older ilk or those with minor injuries. TenPilates however, is home to the latest development Dynamic Pilates, and it shows you just how wrong you are.

Using props and equipment TenPilates produces fast results, improving your posture and core strength and catering for all levels. Unlike traditional pilates it swiftly sculpts you into a honed body within a few sessions and with studios in Mayfair, Notting Hill and Chiswick, it’s the yummy mummies secret.

There are a number of experienced trainers who help advise you with techniques in staying fit and maintaining energy.  The exercise is designed to free up stiff and locked muscles while at the same time giving you an effective and powerful body workout, meaning that you’ll be walking out feeling less stiff and painfree then when you arrived, practically a first with exercising!

TenPilates are offering Gift cards at their studios where you can choose the amount of classes you would like to place on your card, a perfect Mothering Sunday gift.

www.tenpilates.com

£200 gift card allows ten classes which can be used within a year of purchasing the card.

You might be more accustomed to drinking your body weight in wine at Kate Moss and Mark Ronson’s favourite boozer, however, next month you can work off your Christmas weight gain at the
newly introduced Paradise Boot Camp. Every Saturday morning throughout January, popular west London gastropub Paradise will host a series of personal training sessions with leading experts
in heath and fitness development.

Available to everyone and totally complimentary, patrons will don a sweatband and head to nearby Queens Park for a fun and energetic group workout.

As well as saving your pennies by attending these free sessions, every attendee will be rewarded for their efforts with a £20 voucher to spend in the dining room where you can indulge (though not too
heavily we trust) in Tim Payne’s menu of comfort food classics. 

Meet at 11am at the bandstand in the beautiful surrounds Queens Park any Saturday morning (January, 2, 9, 16, 23, 30) for an energising power detox smoothie provided by the team at
Paradise before getting started.

Classes are graded to suit your ability, whether you are a beginner, experienced or just looking to get back into a regular exercise routine after a gluttonous festive period. The classes are
designed to burn fat and help take your fitness forward.

Til then, you can prepare by throwing some shapes at the venue’s NYE masked ball.

Contact Paradise on 020 8969 0098 or email bookings@thecolumbogroup.com to sign up to Paradise Bootcamp.
Paradise by way of Kensal Green
19 Kilburn Lane, Kensal Green, London W10 4AE
www.theparadise.co.uk

Along with the joys of Christmas comes the additional mild guilt and dread that all the fun and frivolous activity will be accompanied by exhaustion, over indulgence and burn out by Boxing Day. South West London has been holding a secret to help handle all this in years past, but at last they are willing to share.

With a growing number of clients requiring ongoing attention following the start of healthy regimes and the impending arrival of babies in the family; Sally Roberts and her team at Muirhead Roberts Physiotherapy decided it was high time to stop talking Pilates, Yoga and Tai Chi and start providing it in. They have opened a beautiful new studio on Balham High Road called reCentre-health where they offer a range of weekly classes in a wonderful oak floored space. With no more than twelve clients accepted in a class, you have to book to get in and the Wednesday night pilates classes are regularly full.

There are now two centres from which the magicians who work there and go under the guise of therapists can practice. There are a wonderful variety of therapies from a delicious Aromatherapy massage with the teacher of aromatherapy for Neal’s Yard, to a very illuminating session with the Nutritional Therapist who won the University of Westminster’s academic prize for two consecutive years. The reCentre is a fabulous hidden gem and a joy to discover just in time for Christmas.

246 Balham High Road
London
SW17 7AW
Tel: 020 8772 0222

www.recentre-health.co.uk

After writing about the new phenomenon exercise “Kick” last week, I thought it was worth taking a trip to see whether it lived up to its reputation.  One sweating hour later, it certainly does…

Sophie Pittaway doesn’t hold the Thai Boxing champion title for nothing and although there is no shame in your level of fitness you’re not let off lightly either.  After a few warm up stretches, you are shown a series of boxing moves and put straight into boxing gloves.  In-between breaks are filled with skipping and a series of sit ups and then it’s back to boxing, kick boxing or straight boxing. 

The intensity of her personal training sessions means that time goes far more quickly then you’d imagine and you don’t even have a moment to contemplate whether you are feeling exhausted or not.  Pittaway is also meticulous about making sure you are breathing correctly so that you don’t waste breath, and also oxygen is pumped consistently to your brain.   Although after your first session you might not have the stamina or core strength quite yet, you certainly feel it won’t take long. 

The best thing about Kick is that the results are fast. You don’t notice you’re working every muscle in your body, but bottom, thighs, stomach and arms are all being used to their full potential and it’s only the next day that you notice it! While clearly being a favourite exercise for men, women love the fact that it doesn’t bulk up your muscles but instead makes gives you long and lean muscle definition.  The results occur after only a few sessions and the best news for women is that it cures cellulite!  Along with training sessions at her gym, Pittaway will also come to your house and trains both privately and in classes. Pittaway is fast building up a very high profile list but now Chelsea’s best kept secret is out.    

Kick, B:02 Micawber Wharf, 17 Micawber Street, N1 7TB

www.kick.uk.com

A new form of fitness is pioneering the way.  Shoreditch gym, Kick, has managed to succeed in fulfilling every lazy girl’s idea of keeping fit with their signature workout, which goes by the name of Kick too.  Mixing power work with ballistic training and resistance training, the session promises weight loss, detox and cellulite remover. 

The inventor, Sophie Pittaway, will put you through kickboxing, yoga, kettelbells and skip ropes in her class, which can either be in a group or personal session.  Although, the black belted queen happens to hold the title of Thai boxing champion, Kick stresses that beginners are very welcome and “Back-to-Basics” training means you don’t need to have Jackie Chan skills to be able to do it.

Piping themselves as “a standout sub-cultural phenomenon that aims to shake the fitness industry from its foundations with a previously unseen style,” Kick not only makes your physical fitness more interesting and diverse, it also improves your flexibility and stability as well as balancing your emotions.  And with even downloadable routines that you can practice at home, it’s no surprise Kick is the leader in martial arts fusion fitness.

Kick, B:02 Micawber Wharf, 17 Micawber Street, N1 7TB