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 [...]

The ever popular Zumba sells itself as ‘exercise in disguise’ because you’re enjoying the dancing so much, you don’t realise you’re exercising. But that’s not the only way to work out without knowing it. Anything that brings up your heart rate and/or gets the muscles working can be considered physical activity – and that means [...]

PARK VIEW FITNESS, Surrey and South West London’s premier Pilates and Personal Training company, launches Pilates classes in Purley this coming Tuesday (3  January 2012).

The classes will be held every Tuesday at Laleham Lea Primary School, 29 Peaks Hill, Purley, Surrey CR8 3JJ. The timetable is as follows…

Pilates – mixed ability – 5.15pm. £7 per [...]

Starting a new exercise plan in 2012? Here are fitness expert Lorraine Thurlow’s tips to help you stick with it!

* Set yourself realistic goals. You may want to lose half your body weight in a month but that isn’t realistic (or safe).  Nor is going to the gym every waking hour when you [...]

Park View Fitness is launching new Pilates classes in Surrey in January 2012.

There is a six-week beginners course, where you will be able to learn the fundamentals of Pilates, and Park View Fitness’s unique Pilates for Legs, Bums & Tums classes – so you can try the exercises used by Pippa Middleton to sculpt [...]

Have you made your New Years Resolutions? Want to get fit? Sort out that back pain? Get a core of steel? Get flat abs? Get a six pack? Have a bottom like Pippa Middleton? Tone up your legs?

Park View Fitness is launching a beginners Pilates course, and Pilates for Legs, Bums & Tums, in [...]

Are you in Purley today? Visit us at the Laleham Lea School Christmas fete – 29 Peaks Hill, Purley, CR8 3JJ (where we’ll be running Pilates classes on Tuesday nights from 3rd January 2012). We’ll be on the sports stall, where you can win Pilates classes/sessions!

Welcome to Park View Fitness, the premiere Pilates and Personal Training company in Surrey and South West London.

We specialise in exercise for health and wellbeing. To us, fitness isn’t just about looking better in your clothes – it’s about strengthening your body to improve your health and daily life. Whether it’s rectifying muscle imbalances [...]