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An overview of barre and Pilates exercises, how they are similar and what makes them different.

On the fitness system spectrum, Pilates and CrossFit appear to stand on completely opposite ends. Here you have Pilates, born in a WWI internment camp to help prisoners regain and maintain their [...]

Sarah Shaw has been training at Dynamic Fitness over the past year and a half to build more core strength on her path to becoming a professional ballerina. With her own background as a ballerina, [...]

Lately we've been talking a lot about apparatus in the Dynamic Fitness blog -- the cornerstones of the classical Pilates [...]

Most people with even just a passing acquaintance with Pilates are familiar with the popular Ab Series from mat classes, and the Reformer is easily recognizable after a few sessions at a [...]

Joseph Pilates was the mad scientist of fitness. As a teenager, he experimented on his own sickly body to achieve the physical transformation promised by his fitness method. Studying a global [...]

Recently the studio has received a lot of inquiries from people who are at their wits' end with fitness:

"Nothing works."
"I'm in pain every day."
"I've tried everything I can [...]

Like many gyms, our Pilates studio is wall-to-wall with equipment. That's about where the similarities end. You'll rarely see machines like these at even the most modern gym, and that's because [...]

In the 20 years since Dynamic Fitness first opened its doors (yes, you read that right -- how the time flies!), we estimate about 1,500 clients have come through our doors in search of a path to [...]

The global Pilates fan base is like a galaxy -- it's incredibly vast and full of stars! In past blogs we've mentioned professional athletes who include Pilates as an important part of their [...]