January's moving fast...

Published: Mon, 01/22/18

The Jane Thomas Pilates Newsletter
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Hello
We have started 2018 with a bit of a bang, as we have got some new classes up-and-running, however it's never too late to join a class and we do have spaces in some of the sessions — specifically the following:
  • Monday 7.00pm at Rosebery Street Medical Centre, Loughborough
  • Wednesday 10.30am at Rosebery Street Medical Centre, Loughborough
  • Wednesday 5.30pm and 6.30pm classes at The Base in Loughborough
  • Wednesday 7.00pm at Rosebery Street Medical Centre, Loughborough 
  • Thursday 8.00pm at Rosebery Street Medical Centre, Loughborough 
  • Friday 9.30am at Rempstone Village Hall, Rempstone
  • Friday 5.30pm at Hathern Community School, Hathern
All of these classes are mixed-level matwork classes.

We also have some Reformer classes with spaces:
  • Monday 8pm (1 space)
  • Wednesday 9am (3 spaces)
  • Thursday 9am (1 space)
  • Friday 12.30pm (4 spaces)
So if you have some Pilates experience, or are looking to add a second class to your schedule, please reply to this Newsletter for further information.


Give Your Mindset an MOT
A friend of mine, Sabrina Francis, works on mindset and — as this is something that I am constantly working on — she has kindly sent through a mini-mindset MOT for us to have a check through, as it is the start of a new year, if you are interested in this too, please click or tap here to view and download Sabrina's mini-mindset leaflet.
Have a fantastic week folks — keep looking, moving and feeling great.

Exercise Of The Week
Following on from last week and the week before where I have been encouraging everyone to do some weight-bearing exercises to help with our bone health and strength, this week I am demonstrating the exercise known as Swimming.

I show different levels, so even though you may be able to perform a full swimming technique, I encourage everyone to do some repetitions of the modified version with some weight-bearing into the wrists and forearms to keep working on our bone health and strength.

Please work at the appropriate level for your body.

Feel the difference, move differently, and look more balanced.
See the video here
Your Whole Self
This week’s story belongs to one of my 1-2-1 clients Felicity. She attends sessions with me at the Studio in Loughborough, and has now been coming for approximately 8 years.

Balance was a key problem for Felicity when she first started to attend at the studio, as she was experiencing lots of problems with her feet. Initially she felt she was losing foot and ankle strength, even felt she was experiencing muscle wastage in her feet which she first noticed with her shoes.

Felicity felt that suddenly her feet were slipping around in her shoes, and she was experiencing aching in her feet, so when walking she felt she had lost the padding on the balls of her feet. She had seen a podiatrist who had prescribed orthotics but she was concerned about the muscle wastage, and the fact that she didn’t feel the orthotics were helping her overall balance and strength.

So we have worked on getting Felicity’s feet into a better place. We have a lot of laughs at her sessions as I set Felicity the challenge of standing on a wobble board and moving. We have also worked on her core strength which has helped her overall balance and alignment. Felicity has always been a keen swimmer, but had lost her confidence with this when she felt her balance wasn’t good. However, very quickly her goals changed from getting back to swimming and improving her overall balance, as these improved in a matter of weeks with how she was working at the Studio and with her homework.

Felicity has returned to swimming a couple of times a week, and she has thrown away her orthotics. She also now walks every day in specifically bought trainers which are fit for purpose. But the goal changed dramatically just over two years ago, when she came along to her session one day and said that her two grandsons were almost catching her up when they were racing, and she wasn’t quite ready for this to happen, so what was I going to do about it???

My answer to that was that Felicity’s goal became my goal. We increased the intensity of her sessions, and worked harder with her balance… And I am pleased to report that when Felicity turned 70 last year, she was still able to beat her grandsons — now 10 and 8 — in a running race!!  She also wants to be able to beat them on a scooter which she treated herself to one prior to her birthday, and she is able to scoot on either leg as her balance work applies to both sides of the body.

So this is Felicity’s story, a classic example of how Pilates can help you achieve your goals, and can help you improve your strength and mobility no matter what your goals are. It is also a classic example of how exercise can be lifestyle appropriate, and enjoyable — because if anyone walks past the Studio when I am working with Felicity they will hear guffaws of laughter as I am setting her a challenge and she tells me how impossible it looks…

And then she does it!

A class act. A classic story.
The Week's Classes
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All classes — matwork and Reformer — are running as planned, all in their correct venues, at the correct days and times.

Catchups
Book a Catchup

If you know you will have to miss a class in your course for any reason, and would like to book a space in another class instead, just follow the link to book it. Our Glamourous Assistant Karen runs the Catchups system, and this link is the quickest, most direct means (it's even faster than emailing her!) of letting Karen know.

Simply tell us the class you will miss and — most important — please give us as many alternatives as possible. If you only give us one alternative, we cannot guarantee you will get a Catchup.

Please also let us know if you will miss your class but don't want a Catchup — the whole Catchup system relies on knowing when spaces will occur.

Finally, please don't just tell your class Pilates Coach you will be missing a class, as your Coach is not aware of Catchups spaces and has no means of registering your space. Karen needs to know, and the link here (it's also at the bottom of our website too) is the best way to let Karen know.


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