Fitness tips: how to get the most out of exercise classes  The Guardian

Go steady If you’re a beginner, don’t do too much, too soon – start with two sessions a week. After a month of attending two or three classes a week, add another.

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TRAVEL: Find the new you on a makeover holiday  Warrington Guardian

A NEW year is a good excuse to seek a ‘new you’, but making major lifestyle changes in the depths of a depressing winter can be challenging.

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TRAVEL: Find the new you on a makeover holiday  Winsford Guardian

A NEW year is a good excuse to seek a ‘new you’, but making major lifestyle changes in the depths of a depressing winter can be challenging.

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Let’s all be better, without trying so hard to be perfect  The Guardian

There’s so much pressure on us to improve ourselves at this time of year, but just possibly we are OK as we are. By Eva Wiseman.

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C’est magnifique! How to look French when you’re not  The Guardian

Jeanne Damas is to the 2010s what Loulou de la Falaise was to the 1970s – the ultimate French fashion It girl. With 1 million Instagram followers, a fashion label …

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Yoga v pilates: both are popular, but which would work best for you? The Guardian Pilates, yoga's more modern associate, has seen similarly rapid growth since it was devised almost 100 years ago. Increasing stress levels, coupled with a greater focus on physical health and wellbeing, are cited as factors in the growth of both, as …

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Reformer Pilates studio opens on Saturday Knutsford Guardian Reformer Pilates studio opens on Saturday. Candice Reay. KNUTSFORD'S first Reformer Pilates studio is to open its doors on Saturday, September 15. 0 comment. Boasting a range of state-of-the-art Pilates equipment – including eight Merrithew reformers …

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Fit in my 40s: 'You can't drift off in reformer pilates' The Guardian Reformer pilates is a little more recent, as a craze, a lot more involved, in terms of hardware, and a lot more expensive. (The class I went to, in Clapham, south London, was £21 for an hour, which would make me think twice. Or maybe I'm just tight.).

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Martin Allen: 'I've been doing pilates. Now it's back into the madhouse' The Guardian It's safe to say that if any other League Two club approached Allen to be their fourth manager of the season, he would have stuck to radio work and pilates. His motivation for returning is clearly partly emotional. “The only reason I've come back is I … and more »

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My life in sex: 'Sexual activity at our age can seem like a pilates class' The Guardian As students, we could, and did, do it in the back of a Mini; the physical side of sex is now less carefree. Sexual activity at our age – we're in our late 60s – can sometimes seem like a Pilates class, and we are having to consider imaginative …

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