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Pilates costs

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bluesky · 26/06/2006 14:27

How much do you pay if you go to a Pilates class, and do you book a course of them, as opposed to turning up per session.

Thanks

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prettybird · 26/06/2006 15:07

Mine (in Scotland) cost £8.50/session (one and a quarter hours) and you pay in blocks of 5 or 6 (ie usually £42.50, sometimes £51). If you can't make it one week, you can try and catch up at one of her other clsses - either that week or some other week during the "block" (although she is usually felxible about catching up "across" blocks)

motherinferior · 26/06/2006 15:20

I pay £66 for six one-hour sessions in a small class. I would look for a course, if possible. Pilates teachers vary enormously.

prettybird · 26/06/2006 15:35

There are about 12-15 in my class - but she is very good instructor and you always feel as if you are getting individual attention.

Clary · 26/06/2006 16:06

Wow MI that's not very cheap!
Or pretty bird.
Ahem. I have a city council card for free swim and workout which costs £220 or so a year, ie about £4.50/week. In theory do pilates and 2 x swim a week (one swim is with ds2 before you think I'm a fitness freak). So well worth it. Without card my pilates class is ? about £3 or maybe £3.50 I think.
You pay when you go and there are usually about 15 people tho sometimes a few more, sometimes less. It's tonight actually, thanks for reminding me!

beckybrastraps · 26/06/2006 16:11

I pay £40 for five one-hour sessions. Class size 6-8. Expensive but worth every penny IMO. Fab teacher, makes all the difference. I've tried bigger, cheaper classes with a different instructor but I didn't get the same benefit.

prettybird · 26/06/2006 16:17

I see where you are coming from Clary, but the classes I go to are private ones and not ubsidised. If you can get good pilates classes at a coucil run centre, thent that is fantastc!

When you think that, in my case, the instrcutor is having to pay for the rental of the room, the various accessoires she uses (cushions, stretch bands, steel rings, little balls....not all in the same week) plus the travel, plus no holiday or sickness pay, plus all the addtional training she goes to at her own expsnes (she updates herself regularly in London), then I think it si pretty good value. She works hard for her money!

I know that my SIL pays more per hour for her daughter's dance classes.

Clary · 26/06/2006 16:35

no sorry, not saying you are being ripped off prettybird. I agree it's good value for money really.
We don't use all those accessories either (sounds quite S&M actually, steel rings and little balls ) but I reckon my class is good if I put the effort in IYSWIM.

motherinferior · 26/06/2006 16:37

I know it's not cheap but mine is posh Pilates, Clary, like wot we glamorous metropolitan types do

(Unlike my council subsidised swimming.)

Clary · 26/06/2006 16:57

MI you are just posh full stop.

And don't try to deny it!

prettybird · 26/06/2006 17:21

.. mine is not that posh - it's in the library of a secondary school!

... but the accessories are interesting! The steel rings are circle with "rests" on them that you can either use to push together (ie the steel resists) and work various arm muscles - or put between your legs to use your inner thigh muscles. Fun..... NOT!

The wee balls are like semi inflated footballs, which you cna do various things with: put between your legs for working the inner thighs and/or the glutes, or sit on and balance and work your pelvic floor.

I didn't think yu were saying we were being ripped off:it was just ineteresting, as I had been mentally trying to do the sums (while trying to take my mind off some difficult exercise ) of what she would earn as a self employed instrucitr - and it wasn't as much as you would have thought!

mousiemousie · 26/06/2006 17:23

£8 per session ad hoc in the YMCA

Clary · 27/06/2006 00:15

well pilates was good tonight, I thought of you all and tried to get my roll-down to go futher than ever
We don't need steel rings with one of the abs exercises she got us to do tonight! I should go several times a week and would have no fat tummy at all (and an ironing basket 10 miles high....)

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bluesky · 27/06/2006 08:09

thanks girls, class prices seemed to vary so much I wanted to check, and I had heard that the smaller the class, the more you got out of it, as you get more attention, which is so important to see that you have got the position right, and "your core" in place!!

So £50 for 5 classes with 8 people sounds OK?

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