“In 10 sessions you will feel the difference, in 20 you will see a difference and in 30 you’ll have a whole new body” Joseph Pilates

Pilates Produces Results

The Pilates method has lasted while other systems from 100 years ago have gone for one simple reason: it works. Pilates can change your body and make you feel and look better. Most people start to get results fairly fast.

Based on the idea that a student was having private sessions with him three times a week, Pilates claimed that in 10 sessions you feel a difference, in 20 you see a difference and after 30 you have a new body.

10 Sessions to Feel a Difference  

You will feel your “power house” in the first few classes, but over the course of your first 10 sessions you should start to experience what pilates can do for you overall in lessening of pain and reshaping your body.

20 Sessions to See a Difference 

Over the next sessions the way that you stand and move should change enough for you to notice a visible difference in your appearance, and perhaps for others to notice too. Before you start classes take some pictures and compare them to you 20 sessions later.

30 Sessions to a Whole New Body 

Obviously you won’t get a perfect body in 30 sessions, and you have decades of Pilates improvement ahead of you. However, thirty classes should give you enough understanding that you have a different relationship with your body.

Measurable Improvement

The 10-20-30 formula is not a promise: the exact speed that your body will change depends on many factors (group vs private classes, 3 times a week vs 3 times a month etc). However, you will find you stick with pilates because you can measure a difference, not because it is “good for you” in some vague, undefined way.

Feel the difference in 10 sessions
See the difference in 20 session
A new body in 30 sessions