Target Heart Rate or THR is the optimal or ‘target’ level of heart beats per minute to reach during exercise – especially if you’re doing HIIT – to attain heart health. If your heart rate is too low you won’t get any cardiovascular benefits. Too high and you may be placing your heart at risk. What is […]

Another Response to the Recent Article Reporting Declining Pilates Numbers If you haven’t heard about this article that claims Pilates is declining in interest, you can catch up by clicking here! This author, Dana Auriemma, speaks eloquently about one of the reasons given for this decline, that we as teachers are too critical. I so […]

Ongoing research about the benefits of high intensity interval training (HIIT) continues to amaze me. This article reviews the fascinating research and explains how to apply HIIT to just about any workout including Pilates. What Is A HIIT Workout “High Intensity Interval Training” also known as HIIT is simple. There’s no equipment or complicated instruction. […]

Nobody does it better than WebMD for brief and thorough AND medically reviewed advice. All their web articles are reviewed by healthcare professionals for accuracy. This one is THE best review of fitness tips for beginners I ever read. You do this and you can rest assured that you are safe, and your workout will […]

These Award-Winning Online Lessons Are The Author’s Latest Attempt to Shake Up the Pilates World! Getting Back to Basics We have featured the award-winning lessons by Bob Hannum here before and we’re proud to do it again! His high-quality instruction is different from anything out there today because he painstakingly simplified every exercise so it’s […]

Not Just One! You’ll Be Surprised by What This Pilates Practitioner Reveals Just when I thought I’d heard everything possible about Pilates – after all I’ve been practicing and teaching it nearly every day for over 40 years! – here comes an author telling me not one but several things I’d never heard! But the […]