Pilates with Vick - Recharge Move Recover

30/01/2025

How freely are you able to move all the parts of your body?
Lack of movement in the body creates tension and friction and breeds pain.
Encouraging movement naturally creates freedom, joy, energy and power emotionally, physically and mentally.
How aware are you of your movement throughout the day, outside of the gym/class setting?
What have you done to try to create more movement in your day?
Have you got a body part that's not moving as freely as you'd like? Or even causing pain?

28/01/2025

Doing nothing doesn’t just mean you don’t get better than you are now.

Doing nothing means you’ll actively lose fitness from where you are today:

💪 In five years’ time you’ll have lost around 5% of your muscle mass if over 30 - up to 15% over 70!

🚶🏻‍♀️Your ability to balance will reduce making you more likely to fall…and break a bone

🧎🏽‍♀️Lack of flexibility and mobility will make you more prone to injuries like frozen shoulder, or putting your back out.

How about, instead of doing nothing, you take action now and grab one of the last few spaces left for our Pilates classes?

- Practice balance to reduce risks of trips, slips and falls
- Learn stretches and releases to improve your flexibility and mobility.
- Increase your muscle strength and bone density to keep you doing things for yourself and reduce the risk of injury

Yes, there are only a few spaces left.

If you want one of them, hurry to the first comment and grab it quick, before they are all gone.

27/01/2025

📢 Introducing Pilates for Strength, Balance & Mobility! 📢

💪 Are you recovering from a back or shoulder injury?
🤸 Do you struggle with balance or lifting?
😫 Is a stiff neck limiting your movement?

If you answered "yes" to any of these, our new Pilates class at The Armoury in Sutton is designed for YOU!

Pilates is a gentle yet powerful exercise method that can help you:

✅ Improve strength and flexibility
✅ Increase core stability
✅ Enhance balance and coordination
✅ Reduce pain and stiffness
✅ Regain confidence in your movement

Our experienced instructors will guide you through safe and effective exercises tailored to your needs.

When: Tuesdays & Thursdays at 10:00 AM Where: The Armoury, Sutton

✨ Rediscover the joy of movement and get back to doing the things you love! ✨

Limited spaces available!
➡️ Head to the first comment to book your spot

21/01/2025

Breathing has never seemed difficult ever before until you come to a Pilates class.....right? 🤣

It's not just you, breathing is one of the most difficult things to master when you first start a new type of exercise - I still get reminded to "aand breaaatheee" by my coaches too.

Unfortunately stress and work and inactivity and poor sleep and and and ....life, means our body's have often gotten out of good efficient breathing habits.

This video will show you how to reset, relax and take control of breathing again.
Practising this type of breathing will help reduce stress and get you ready to exercise again.

Also....you can do it anywhere!
At your desk if your boss stresses you out,
In the car after dropping the kids at school,
Or just chilling on your sofa for a few minutes before your evening Netflix 😉

If you've been thinking about coming back to exercise or even trying Pilates, keep an eye out for the rest of my Fundamentals series, to get you confident and ready to walk back into class.

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20/01/2025

What is Pilates anyway?

It's a way to connect with body so you can move better, be pain free, get stronger and keep doing all the fun stuff like playing with kids or dancing or BJJ........(and make the every day stuff easier like carrying the shopping bags in from the car, taking the hoover up the stairs, picking stuff up off the floor 😮)

Drop me a message if you want to know more 👇🏼

New classes starting Tuesday 28th and Thursday 30th January 10am at The Armoury

19/01/2025

How are you getting on with 2025?

If you didn't quite get your exercise, fitness or movement resolutions started yet and are feeling a bit rubbish about it because you're still stiff and struggling with silly things like carrying the shopping or climbing the stairs (or reaching into the bottom drawer 🙈) then Don't Worry!!!! 🤗

You can now come and join me for my unique style of fun but related to real life pilates classes at The Armoury in Sutton.

- wear whatever you're comfortable in - no lycra required
- no one will be looking at you except me
- no one will know what they are doing because it's a New Class ✨️
- I want you to feel better when you leave so I won't be mean or embarrass you in class
- you just need to bring yourself and a bottle of water, we have everything else you need

I am very happy to answer any and all questions however silly they might feel so ask away 👇🏼

You are probably thinking the same as someone else and it'll help them out too 🙃

03/01/2025

Find every little moment and minute you can to be present and breathe. Encourage the people around you to join in, no matter how young your old. Without rest and recovery all your hard work will just become burnout.

02/01/2025

Is January a good time of year for you to reset?
Maybe, maybe not.
If it is do you have an intention you want to build on going forward?
For me, I find myself in a good place to start rebuilding my strength and my intention is to be more aware of that every day.
I started today with 45 minutes of my own pilates practice, purely for me, nonone else - no filming, no teaching, no demonstrating. Just me and my body and my mind reconnecting with my nervous system and my inner self.
Start small, love yourself more. 🙏

21/12/2024

Go careful at those Christmas drinkies this weekend peeps - maybe pre-hydrate so the rehydration doesn't feel such a struggle 😉

18/03/2023

How did your New Year New You plans go this year?

Did life happen?
Did something else get in the way?
Did you put other people's things first?

Do you still want to address that achy back, dodgy knee or stiff shoulder?
Is it time for some me time?

I can teach you how to Move Better,
Feel Better and Feel Stronger

Come join my New Beginners and Refreshers class in Hampton on Tuesday Mornings.

Message me to find out more

Vick 🙃

01/06/2022

Who wants to always wake up feeling full of energy and not have to start the day in pain?
We've all had that feeling at some point in our lifes right?
Maybe a very long time ago - maybe you think it's something you can't have any more and only young people have that luxury? Not so!
It is possible to have a good night's sleep more night's than not by addressing those few niggly things that deep down you really know are what's keeping you up at night.
If you have no serious mental or physical health issues here's a few things to think about to get you started:
1.Have an end of work day cut off time and create a habit that breaks you out of work into home time
2.Eat your evening meal 3 hours before bedtime
3.Stop any screen time 2 hours before bedtime, even with blue light filters
4. Start relaxing and winding down 1 hour before bedtime
5.Make bedtime between 9pm-10.30pm to get the best night's sleep
6.Make your bedroom cool and dark and don't have any devices in your room
If you need help with neck pain keeping you up at night message me for more advice.
You might also feel you need to talk to someone about stress or anxiety and this can really help too.
I don't always manage to do all these things - nobody is perfect right? - but I do know on the days when I finish work by 6, get dinner early and have some good chilled non-screen time with my family I definitely sleep much better, I get 8 hours sleep and I wake up without an alarm clock refreshed and ready for my day.
What things do you know will always mean you have a really good night's sleep?

31/05/2022