Do many men do Pilates?

Yes, and more every year. We have men in classes across the week, men in inductions, and men on Zoom, ranging in age from their 30s to their 80s.

Pilates has an image problem with men that it doesn't deserve. It was created by a man, Joseph Pilates, a boxer and circus performer, and its original devotees included soldiers and athletes. Somewhere along the way marketing departments decided it was for women in matching activewear, and that reputation has lingered. It's nonsense.

Our male members come for exactly the reasons you'd expect: stiff backs from desk jobs, hips that don't move the way they used to, golf swings that need more rotation, marathon legs that need some balance work, and the very sensible goal of still being able to get off the floor without help in twenty years' time. Most of them are surprised by how hard the classes work them. Men who lift weights are often the most humbled by a slow, controlled Pilates session, because it uses muscles they've never really met.

You'll never be the token bloke either. Classes are mixed, nobody makes a thing of it, and within two sessions you're just one of the regulars.