How often should I do Pilates to notice a difference?

Once a week is a genuinely good start — consistency matters far more than frequency when you're fitting it around a full life. Most clients begin to feel a difference in how they carry themselves within a few weeks of weekly sessions.

Is one-to-one Pilates very different from a group class?

It's a different experience entirely — every exercise is adjusted to your body, your history and what's happening for you that week, rather than a format that works for a room of twelve people. It's quieter, more focused, and tends to get results faster.

I haven't exercised properly in months. Is that a problem?

Not at all — it's actually one of the most common places people start. The first session is always about finding out where you are right now, not where you think you should be.

The Reset · Edition 01 · 31 May 2026

Start Where You Actually Are

Name: Quick Lemon Chicken and Greens Bowl
Total time: 15 min
Ingredients: 2 cooked chicken thighs (roast your own or use a good shop-bought rotisserie); A large handful of watercress or rocket; Half a cucumber, sliced; 1 soft-boiled egg; A few tablespoons of cooked puy lentils (a tin is fine); Juice of half a lemon; A good glug of olive oil; Salt, black pepper, a pinch of chilli flakes if you like

This week is about doing one small thing well, rather than everything perfectly.

If you only do one thing this week: stand up, roll your shoulders back, and take three slow breaths before you open your laptop. That's it. It sounds almost embarrassingly small — but it's a reset, and that's the whole point of this newsletter.

I started writing this because every week I see the same thing in the studio: women who are capable and organised in every other part of their lives, quietly abandoning themselves last. Not because they don't care, but because the bar they've set for "looking after themselves" is so high that anything less feels like failure. So nothing happens at all.

This newsletter isn't going to ask a lot of you. Each edition is one move, one meal idea, one place to eat, one quiet thought. Stuff that fits a Tuesday morning or a Thursday after school pick-up. Real life, not the aspirational version of it.

Welcome to The Reset. I'm glad you're here.

The move — 10 minutes, no kit

Standing moves done slowly — with full attention on how your body feels — are exactly where good habits start, because they require nothing except showing up.

01Stand with feet hip-width apart. Inhale for 4 counts, exhale for 6. Do this 5 times — slower than feels natural.
02Roll down through your spine, vertebra by vertebra, until your hands hang somewhere near your shins. Hold for 3 breaths.
03Bend your knees softly and roll back up just as slowly. Repeat 4 times.
04Step one foot back into a low lunge. Press your back knee gently down, lift your chest, and hold for 5 breaths. Swap sides.
05Finish standing. Roll your shoulders back and down 5 times. Notice how much space you've created across the front of your chest — that's where most of us are holding everything.

The plate

Quick Lemon Chicken and Greens Bowl

This is less a recipe and more an assembly job — the kind of thing that takes 15 minutes on a Sunday and feeds you properly for two weekday lunches.

·2 cooked chicken thighs (roast your own or use a good shop-bought rotisserie)
·A large handful of watercress or rocket
·Half a cucumber, sliced
·1 soft-boiled egg
·A few tablespoons of cooked puy lentils (a tin is fine)
·Juice of half a lemon
·A good glug of olive oil
·Salt, black pepper, a pinch of chilli flakes if you like

The shortcut: Cook a double batch of lentils on Sunday — they keep in the fridge for four days and drop straight into this without any thought on a busy morning.

Where we eat

Urban Greens, Kensington High Street

Urban Greens on Kensington High Street is the answer to that specific Tuesday problem: you're hungry, you want something proper, and you have roughly eight minutes before your next thing. The salad bowls here are actually filling — real protein options including tempeh, tofu and chickpeas, so you won't be rummaging through your bag for snacks an hour later. It's grab-and-go that doesn't feel like a compromise. A short walk from the studio, which makes it an easy stop after a session.

The note

This week, try leaving your phone in another room for the first ten minutes after you wake up. Not forever, not as a rule — just once, to see what the start of a day feels like when it belongs to you before it belongs to everyone else. Most people who try it find they don't miss anything urgent. They do miss the quiet, though, once it's gone.

Train with Barone

Sessions are 60 minutes, one-to-one, at home or in-studio — no gym membership required. The 20-session block works out at £110 a session and is where most clients land.

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Good to know

How often should I do Pilates to notice a difference?: Once a week is a genuinely good start — consistency matters far more than frequency when you're fitting it around a full life. Most clients begin to feel a difference in how they carry themselves within a few weeks of weekly sessions.
Is one-to-one Pilates very different from a group class?: It's a different experience entirely — every exercise is adjusted to your body, your history and what's happening for you that week, rather than a format that works for a room of twelve people. It's quieter, more focused, and tends to get results faster.
I haven't exercised properly in months. Is that a problem?: Not at all — it's actually one of the most common places people start. The first session is always about finding out where you are right now, not where you think you should be.

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