KATHY VAN PATTEN - Featured Trainer Sept ‘09
Endorse: Gyrotonic
Current Residence: Beacon Hill, Boston, MA
Favorite Book: John Adams by David McCullough, and Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell.
Favorite workout apparel: Sense Clothing.  Flowing and very flattering.
I admire and I’m inspired by: Juliu Horvath; he is brilliant and has created a movement system that enables me [...]

Standing Golf Pilates Functional Fitness
By Mike Wright
The process of aging will certainly detract from the golfer’s ability to play golf. Many golfers are finding their best defense is Golf Pilates conditioning.
What it is “all about” for the golfer is delaying that process as long as possible. As a “mature” player, that is fifty plus years [...]

How to effectively teach Pilates in a Health Club
By Kerrie Ann Frey
Pilates is a powerful, effective method of exercise.  Some practitioners go beyond the physical and mental exercise and equate Pilates with rehabilitation and physical therapy.  Whatever a person’s philosophy of what Pilates is, the fact remains that it should be, as [...]

Incorporating Pregnancy Pilates into Teacher Training
By Laura Todd
More and more women come through our doors with little knowledge about the safest ways to exercise during pregnancy. Typically, they have some preconceived notions from a quick Google search about the do’s and don’ts of Pilates during pregnancy, or a quick phone call or email to [...]

Alisa Wyatt’s New DVD for the Advanced
By Shari Berkowitz
Joseph Pilates wanted his clients to ultimately be independent in their workouts. As a supplement to the workout they would do in his studio on 8th Avenue in New York City, he hoped that they would do the matwork at home, perhaps have a Magic Circle [...]