{"id":648583,"date":"2026-05-04T07:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T07:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/648583\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T07:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T07:46:08","slug":"calls-for-reformer-pilates-regulation-amid-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/648583\/","title":{"rendered":"Calls for Reformer Pilates regulation amid boom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reformer Pilates focuses on controlled movement, targeting muscles you might not even know you had. <\/p>\n

Although the craze is high right now, Reformer was invented by Joseph Pilates during World War I, when he adapted hospital beds with springs to help rehabilitate patients.<\/p>\n

But despite Reformer Pilates becoming increasingly popular, with celebrities such as Ed Sheeran <\/a>taking up the exercise, the industry is not formally regulated.<\/p>\n

Nathan Benjamin-Smith, owner of Reformer Pilates Bicester in Oxfordshire, said: “From my perspective, it’s less about a shortage of instructors, and more about the rapid growth of the industry outpacing the availability of highly experienced, well-trained professionals. <\/p>\n

“As demand has increased, there’s also been a rise in shorter training courses, which can vary significantly in depth and quality.”<\/p>\n

Hosking says “there is always evidence evolving and changing” and that “you never stop training as any exercise professional”.<\/p>\n

“There’s so many training providers now, you seem to be able to get a training in a very short amount of time,” she said.<\/p>\n

“I was definitely trained in an era where it was quite a remedial approach to teaching Pilates.<\/p>\n

“I feel that with the increased amount of reformer studios it’s more of maybe an athletic approach which is probably coming over from across the waters… there’s a lot of changes in the industry and I definitely feel that there’s space for some more control and just to keep people safe.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reformer Pilates focuses on controlled movement, targeting muscles you might not even know you had. Although the craze…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[64,63,538,137],"class_list":["post-648583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fitness","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}