5 Cork Pilates classes where you can get a killer workout this summer
It’s how Samantha Jones kept herself in shape.
And if you’re finding your fitness routine is getting a little stale, trying out a Pilates class can make you feel fresh and motivated again.
While popular among Cork fit folk, heavy weights might not be the best option for you if all you want is to build natural strength and move freely in your body while developing your flexibility and range of motion.
Pilates is a versatile exercise with a reputation for full-body and core-strength building. Much like its cousin yoga, it can be done from pretty much anywhere, often with no equipment necessary.
Check out these five studios in Cork and find your Pilates people today:
1. Flex in the City
Flex in the City is a Pilates and barre studio located in Penrose Wharf, specialising in small group classes and 1-1 private training. You can take classes in chair pilates (invented as a compact workout system for New York City apartments by Joseph Pilates) to enhance stability, balance, and body control, or take The Reformer for a spin and sweat yourself into next week.
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2. Return to Life Pilates
If you’re feeling a bit self-conscious and looking for a small-group setting to get to know the new moves, the Return to Life studio on South Terrace offers small group mat classes, Reformer Pilates classes and private sessions.
Too busy to make the journey? Save some time and do it all from the comfort of your own home with their online sessions.
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3. Reform Pilates
Grab your band and tighten your core with an intense barre workout at Reform Pilates on Monahan Road. Imagine a mix of ballet, pilates, yoga and intensive toning, all done to dance music. That’s Barre Pilates.
If you can’t leave your weights behind, the studio incorporates different levels of ball and barbells into their Reformer workouts, to add resistance to your training.
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4. Elite Pilates Douglas
Group workouts are good for the soul. They help you compete, support, push and pull each other along during a sweaty, flexy collective struggle.
Elite Pilates is the ultimate Reformer studio boasting Cork’s largest space for this type of Pilates. Feel the pull of the group in the 1-6 person PT classes or group classes Monday- Saturday in the Douglas studio.
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5. Hot Pilates at Bikram Yoga
If you’re really a glutton for punishment, then take yourself to the steamy rooms of Bikram Yoga for a 60-minute session of Inferno Hot Pilates.
Not only will you get the burn of the exercise, but you’ll feel the heat of the interval training with temperatures turned all the way up to ‘why?’. Hot Pilates at Bikram Yoga is currently in high demand so you’ll have to put your name down on the waiting list.
Check out the timetables and prices online here.
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