Hitchin's Pilates Pod is gearing up to welcome members back next week!

The Bancroft based pilates studio was founded in 2011 and since then has become a multi-award winning company as well as being the first classical apparatus pilates studio in Hertfordshire.

Owned by Michelle Smith, teacher of the pilates method for over 18 years and trainer to many professional sports players, stars of stage, screen and music, and broadcasters.

Michelle and her team of highly skilled teachers are looking forward to welcoming members back so that they can enjoy some movement, a play in the studio and ultimately the joy of a lifetime of benefits their traditional pilates method can offer.

Posting on their official Instagram account they wrote: "We're so ready for you.

"Next Monday, April 12, the doors to our Hitchin studio finally reopen.

"That means we can get back to doing what we love - guiding our members along their pilates journey."

Everything you need to know about pilates

Pilates is a low-impact form of exercise. It helps improve muscle tone and posture using a combination of mat and apparatus work.

It helps to ease aches and injury by working on strengthening the centre of your body (your core and abs)

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