Here’s Park View Fitness founder Lorraine Thurlow being featured in Bodyfit magazine, talking about how a back injury led to a new career teaching Pilates, her fitness business and the wellbeing charity she volunteers for, Climb Your Mountain – http://www.ClimbYourMountain.org 

We’re currently running a special offer [...]

Pilates classes in Sutton!

Looking for mixed ability Pilates classes in Sutton? We already run private group classes at the Park View Fitness studio in Sutton, Surrey, but we’re now adding open classes to our timetable.

The classes are small (four people max) so you will get amazing attention and more benefit from each class. [...]

We all know we’re supposed to eat five portions of fruit and vegetables a day. That’s easy when the fruit is an apple or banana, which comes in its own portion. But what about smaller fruit and veg? Here’s a rough guide to what makes up one portion…

1 150ml glass of orange juice

3 [...]

Fancy a FREE 1-2-1 Pilates session at the Park View Fitness studio in Sutton, Surrey? Follow us on Twitter. This month one follower will win a free 1-2-1 session or private group class for themselves and up to four friends – worth £60.

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Looking for Pilates classes in or around Purley?

We run regular Pilates classes at Laleham Lea School in Purley every Tuesday and Thursday evening. Our classes include…

Mixed Ability Pilates, suitable for all levels

Pilates for Backs, where the emphasis is on strengthening back and core muscles, improving spinal mobility and increasing flexibility to help [...]

Exercise for bad backs

We specialise in helping people with back pain. It is a particular passion of Park View Fitness founder Lorraine Thurlow, who has suffered from back and neck pain since the age of 20, when she injured her back in a car crash. Wanting to help people manage their back pain is [...]

Common Myths About Pilates

As Pilates specialists, we come across lots of misconceptions about Pilates and excuses why people think it’s not for them. So we thought we’d lay to rest some of those myths….

“It’s only for women.” It’s not. Pilates is for everybody, of all ages, shapes, sizes and fitness levels. Men and women [...]

Do you know how much exercise you should be doing each week? Here are the official guidelines…

Cardiorespiratory Exercise

Adults should get at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise per week. Exercise recommendations can be met through 30-60 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise (five days per week) or 20-60 minutes of vigorous-intensity exercise [...]

Here are some more ways of exercising without realising it – and the calories you’ll burn up while doing so.

Food shopping – 243 calories an hour. Brushing your teeth – 5.7 calories per two mins (the recommended brushing time). Dusting – 160 calories an hour (If your house isn’t that dusty, find a slobby [...]

Thinking about joining a gym. Here are some (very tongue in cheek) rules and advice we found and thought we’d share with you.

 1. A gym is not designed to make you feel instantly better about yourself. If a gym wanted to make you feel instantly better about yourself, it would be a bar.

2. Give yourself [...]