How many days a week should I do Pilates?

First thing’s first, you create a Pilates routine that fits with your lifestyle. Three or 4 times per week are ideal for progression in most sports but, as always, anything is better than nothing. Pilates-speaking, twice a week is probably the least you can do in order to maintain your level.

They say that Joseph Pilates’ dedicated clients would come in to see him at least 3-4 times a week. He was insistent that in 10 sessions people would feel the difference, in twenty sessions they would see a difference, and in thirty sessions they would have a whole new body. What does this mean, in real terms?

In 10 sessions, your muscles will feel stronger, your body more aligned, and your mind clearer (all that correct breathing). Some sense of reduction in physical and mental stress will also be apparent. After 20 sessions, you may notice more muscle definition. After 30 sessions, you’ll be noticeably moving better, feeling better and living better.

Pilates will translate to other aspects of your life, and you may well come to consider quite early on that you’d like it to stick around and keep you healthy and strong for years to come. Do try to keep sessions to once weekly at a bare bare minimum. The more you leave days between sessions, particularly in the early days, the harder it will be for the body to build on your what it has learnt.

Pilates is definitely not the kind of exercise where you feel hooked after one or two sessions, generally speaking. But once you have given it a few weeks of routined practice, more often that not you see and feel the magic!

If you really struggle to make time, make it a priority to do your ten-minute homework supplied by CPB in your PDF every day you don’t have class. And send me a picture or video for motivation!