The Dance Studio, Staveley is a private studio so (well behaved!) children are welcome to come along too!

Bums Tums & Toning
Sagging bottom, belly bulging over you belt? Then this is the workout for you!

Combining upper and lower body exercises with low and high impact moves.

No fancy routines to remember. Tone and sculpt your body back into shape!

Monday 11.15-12.15 pm      Thursday 12.30-1.30pm

Step conditioning
Improve your cardio-vascular fitness, get all over toning and feel fantastic.

Using a variety of high and low impact moves ranging in intensity to suit everyone.

Whatever your ability—this is one to make you sweat!

Friday 12.30-1.30pm

Circuits & Boot camp
Suitable for beginners to advanced

Whole body workout

You set your own pace

Challenge yourself and take your body to its limit!

Pilates for Golf
Pilates for Golf is built upon the established and very successful Pilates method of fitness, which is a contemporary, anatomically-based approach to the mind-body exercise regime developed by Joseph Pilates. Designed to develop optimal strength, flexibility, endurance and posture without building bulk or stressing your joints.  

More than 60% of all recreational golfers will suffer one or more golf related injuries during the course of their playing career. Most of these injuries result from poor mechanics, a lack of flexibility and generally poor golf ( physical) conditioning. Physician and Sports Medicine

Of all the professional athletes who have discovered Pilates, golfers have taken to it fastest and in greatest numbers. Devotees include Annika Sorenstam, David Duval, Kelli Kuehne, Andrew McGee, Grace Park and Carin Koch, among many others.

Golf, like Pilates, is about stability - the ability in the case of golf to hold a position long enough to play through a shot without the body buckling or twisting.

Golf, like Pilates, is about focus and 'getting in the groove' - repeating similar movements efficiently, effectively and precisely no matter, in golf's case, the distractions of weather, terrain or opponent.

Golf, like Pilates, is about core strength, movement from the centre of the body, flexibility, precise movements and tiny margins - a small improvement in a golfer's shoulder flexibility, for example, can be the difference between a drive from the tee veering into the rough or going straight onto the green.

Often thought of as a game requiring little more than hand-eye co-ordination to hit the ball and stamina for a long walk round the course, golf is actually a whole-body sport in which the key movements - particularly when driving or chipping - come from the core.

Pilates addresses the need for excellent rotation around the spine while maintaining stability through the transverse abdominal muscles. The shoulders and arms also need to be stable in order to control a shot - yet sufficiently strong and elastic to deliver power and send the ball 150 metres and more down the fairway.

Top golfers nowadays work on their fitness as much as their putting - a feature that is becoming more common among club-level players, too. Even though Seve Ballesteros describes Pilates as 'boring, boring, boring', the Spaniard knows it can ease his perennial back pain: 'I believe it is making a difference. It needs patience, but if it will help me on the golf course I will do it'.

The Pilates method will help to sculpt your body without adding any bulk to your muscles. It has been specifically adapted to improve your Golf game by developing flexibility and strength in your body.

Monday 12.30-1.30pm