Taylor Pilates And Fitness Blog


Need a Digital Detox?

Take a break from your digital devices for your mental health. Check out these tips to make it easier.

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6 Tips to Make Healthier Eating Easier

Eating healthier can be easier with these six tips.

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3 Resources to Help You Feel Well and Live Well

Discover new ways to help you feel well and live well.

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Shift Your Mindset and Language to Live Well and Feel Well

Ditch the negative language for a positive mindset as you work toward your fitness goals.

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Working on your floor-to-standing mobility to increase your longevity

The adage, “If you don’t use it, you lose it,” certainly applies to our ability to get off the floor to a standing position. Playing on the floor and jumping from the floor to standing is second nature when we’re young. But the time most of us spend on the floor diminishes as we age. If we stop moving in this way, our floor-to-standing mobility decreases.

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Boost Your Game: How Pilates Can Elevate Tennis, Pickleball, and Golf Performance

Before you hit the courts or off the tee, check out how Pilates can help you avoid injury and maybe even improve your game.

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Optimize Your Pelvic Floor Health with Pilates and Physical Therapy

If you’re dealing with pelvic floor dysfunction, it’s time to see how Pilates and physical therapy can help.

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Pilates on the Go: Extend your Pilates Practice Outside the Studio

Your Pilates practice doesn’t have to remain in our studio. Extend your practice at home and while you’re on vacation.

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Blue Zone Communities: Lessons to Age with Health and Comfort

Blue zone communities are areas where people live longer and healthier lives. Learn some of the secrets of longevity, keeping blue zone communities healthy.

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Add Bursts of Movement to Everyday Activities for Health Benefits

Think you’re too busy for a regular exercise routine? Check out these ideas for how to add more exercise throughout your day for significant health benefits.

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Reduce Inflammation to Improve Your Health

While you might not think your body has chronic inflammation, exposure to toxins, poor sleep and eating habits, and chronic stress typical in many American lifestyles can lead to chronic inflammation.

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5+ Ways to Improve Your Balance

What have you done to improve your balance today? Take a look at some simple suggestions you can incorporate balance into your everyday movements.

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The Benefits and Joy of Pilates for Seniors

Do you think Pilates is only for young people? Think again! If you’re a senior, your Pilates session will soon become one of your favorite weekly activities!

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Pilates for Men: 6 Reasons Men Should Do Pilates

Men are increasingly interested in Pilates and for good reason. Learn the six benefits of Pilates for men and why professional athletes like LeBron James, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Tiger Woods practice Pilates.

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Summer Fun on South Downing Street, Denver

It feels like summer! Before or after your summertime adventures, check out these places to eat and drink on South Downing Street.

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5 Tips for Bone Health

Approximately 52 million Americans have osteopenia and osteoporosis. While your sex, race and hormones all contribute to your rate of bone loss, you can influence your bone health through diet, supplementation, and exercise.

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Are you CPR and First Aid Trained?

Do you know the latest CPR techniques? If you don’t, or it’s been a few years since your last CPR or first aid training, it’s time to sign up again. The American Red Cross offers many convenient classes.

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Whole Body Donation: A Legacy of Learning

Donating your body to scientific research is an amazing legacy—of learning, insight, education and outcomes.

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Reading Suggestions to Boost Your Nutrition

Need some inspiration for the kitchen? Check out our latest reading suggestions on fueling your body with optimal nutrition.

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What is Myofascial Release or MFR for short?

Myofascial Release applies gentle pressure to the fascia to create change by rehydrating the tissue, removing adhesions, and restoring the slide and glide that the tissue needs to be healthy.

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Pilates is for Everyone and Every Body

Pilates is one of the most accessible forms of exercise available. Check out why it really is for everyone and every body – young or old, tall or petite, fit or not.

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Physical Therapy and Pilates: A Very Effective Healing Strategy

When physical therapy is prescribed for recovery after injury or surgery, adding Pilates to your recovery regimen will get you feeling and moving better quicker.

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The Benefits of Breath Work in Pilates

It’s important to learn Pilates breathing techniques to make the most of your Pilates sessions and also to support your overall wellbeing.

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Effortless Exercise: 4 Benefits of Walking and Where to Walk in Denver

Walking is a wonderful way to move well, feel well and live well. Check out the benefits of walking and get some inspiration on where to walk in Denver.

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5 Brain-Changing Benefits of Exercise

Learn why regular exercise helps your brain learn, remember, reason and focus.

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Get To Know Denver's South Downing Street Neighborhood, The Studio's New Location

In late June 2022, Taylor Pilates and Fitness will be in our new space at 2390 S. Downing Street, Suite D in Denver. While our location will change will continue to offer individual Pilates sessions, functional training, and OOV classes as well as physical therapy and myofascial release. Check out some of the restaurants and businesses that will be our neighbors on South Downing Street.

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Feel Well: Foods that Fight Inflammation

Chronic inflammation in your body can cause illness and pain. Choosing low-inflammation food is a great way to reduce the inflammation in your body. Learn what you should know about inflammation and what foods you should add to your grocery list to fight inflammation.

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Tips for a Colorado Snowshoe and Cross-Country Ski Adventure

Are you ready for a new way to stay moving this season? We’d recommend a snowshoeing or cross-country skiing adventure. Here are a few things to learn before you embark on your new wintertime activities.

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Healthy Holiday Tips

It’s the most wonderful time of the year for many, but also one of the hardest to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Check out these tips to have a healthy holiday season this year.

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Falls Hikes to Enjoy the Aspens in Colorado

When the aspens shed their green and start shimmering gold, it’s one of our favorite times to get out and hike a Colorado trail. Check out six of our favorite hikes to enjoy the aspens.

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How is a Pilates studio different from a gym?

What’s best for you? Pilates at a studio or exercising at a gym? We break it down for you.

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Pilates: A Versatile, Flexible, and Fun Form of Movement

Pilates is a versatile and flexible form of movement that can be personalized to your specific goals to build strength, improve flexibility, and more. Learn how we can help you find more comfort and ease in your body.

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Functional Fitness is Essential for Everyone

Functional fitness exercise prepares your body to move well, feel well, and live well in your daily life.

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Reading to Support Your Health in 2021

Take a look at our latest book recommendations! Learning more about how your body works will help support your health in 2021.

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Outdoor Activities and Adventures - Colorado's Front Range

In Colorado, there’s always something fun to do outdoors in any season. Whether you have a bit of cabin fever or just want to absorb your Vitamin D on a gorgeous Colorado bluebird day, we have pulled together some of our favorite outdoor activities.

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3 Cookbook Recommendations

Looking for healthy recipes that are quick, paleo-friendly, or vegetarian? We know you’ll find many ideas that make healthy eating simple in the three cookbook recommendations we feature in this blog.

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Get to Know the Platt Park Neighborhood in Denver

We invite you to visit us at the Platt Park neighborhood in Denver! Here are a few highlights we wanted to share about what makes our neighborhood so special. At Taylor Pilates and Fitness, we are grateful and proud to be part of the Platt Park neighborhood in Denver.

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Ways to Boost Your Immunity

There’s nothing quite like a global pandemic to make you wonder how to boost your immunity. In spite of the challenges and risks associated with a pandemic, you are not powerless in your own self-care. You can incorporate healthy living strategies including regular exercise to support your immune system and overall well being.

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Pilates for Rehab: Get Back to Living and Moving Well

Pilates is not only an extraordinary way to exercise (and prevent injury), it’s become a preferred method to rehab from injury.

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Studio Closure & Virtual Session Information

Late yesterday the Colorado Department of Health and Environment updated its emergency measures closing additional businesses including the studio through April 30th. The updated closures are another effort to decrease the spread of the Coronavirus a

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Pilates for Seniors: The Exercise You Will Soon Love

Pilates is a great exercise method for any age, but if you’re 50 years or older you should check out some of the benefits of Pilates for seniors.

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Why Professional Athletes Love Pilates for Men and Why You Should Too

Pilates for men is a powerful exercise with benefits for men’s overall fitness, cross-training, core strength, and stability. Check out why Pilates for men should be on your must-do exercise list.

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What Makes A Great Pilates Studio?

The other day a client asked, "What do you think makes a great Pilates studio?" I thought it was a fair and interesting question. Surprisingly, it's a question that I have not been asked in the 10 years that I have been teaching movement.

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Better Booze - Cleaner Wine Options

Even though wine isn’t a health food, you can still enjoy it if you are dedicated to a clean eating lifestyle. Learn what you need to know to drink clean.

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What’s Cookin’: 3 Cookbook Recommendations

If you’re in a rut for what to cook or just love to find new recipes that nourish your body, check out our cookbook recommendations that are full of delicious and nutritious recipes.

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The Gift to Impact Generations: Whole Body Donation to Science and Education

Are you planning to donate your whole body to science after you pass? If you answer “YES” or aren’t quite sure, learn all you need to know about whole body donation.

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Is Histamine Intolerance to Blame?

Are your “seasonal allergies” lasting all year long? Maybe it’s time to look at histamine intolerance to finally get some relief. Here’s what you need to know.

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Suggested Reading Summer 2019

Curious what some of our favorite wellness books are at Taylor Pilates and Fitness? Check out two of our favorites: Back in Control and Radical Metabolism.

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Trail Etiquette for Hikers, Bikers and Horseback Riders

Before you head out on a Colorado trail for a hike, bike, or horseback ride this summer, check out our trail etiquette guidelines.

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Get 10,000 Steps Daily

The average American walks about 1.5 to 2 miles a day which is roughly 3,000 to 4,000 steps. Here’s how 10,000 steps came to be the goal people want to achieve, the health benefits of walking, and how to determine what’s right for you.

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4 Ways to Reduce Inflammation

Are you hearing a lot about inflammation and the negative consequences it can have for your health? To help you better understand what it is, this blog shares how it can impact your health and ways to minimize chronic inflammation in your body.

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The Difference Between Pilates And Yoga

It’s common for people to assume that Pilates and yoga are the same. While they do have some similarities, they are quite different. Many people find Pilates and yoga are the perfect complement for each other and enjoy both forms of exercise.

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How to Maintain and Improve Physical Balance

How to Maintain and Improve Physical Balance There are a lot of ways we try to maintain balance in our lives—work/life balance, a balanced checkbook, a diet that has the right balance of macronutrients, and more. Even with all this focus on maintaining proper balance, many of us overlook an essential element in our lives: physical balance. Even those of us who work out regularly to build our cardio and muscle strength often don’t spend enough time maintaining balance. This is a mistake and it becomes even more essential to pay attention to maintaining and improving our balance as we age.

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What is Functional Training?

People work out for many reasons. Some want to lose a few pounds, others want an outlet to reduce stress, or to sleep better. Those who just want to feel better as they go about their regular activities and improve their ability to handle everyday tasks might be interested in functional training.

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Stress Management for the Holidays

Even though the holidays are meant to be full of joy, they can be times of stress and angst for many of us. Shopping. Wrapping. Parties. Pressures to produce a holiday worthy of a magazine cover. To bring back the joy this season, check out our stress management techniques for the holidays.

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Did you know there was a man named Pilates?

Did you know there was a man named Pilates? Joseph Pilates created his exercise method in the early 20th century to balance the body, mind and spirit after turning to exercise to improve his health. Learn about the history of Pilates—the man and the method.

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Tips to Create Better Ergonomics

Creating better ergonomics can help you avoid pains and strains that are common from repetitive motion or staying in the same position for long periods of time. Here are our top tips to create better ergonomics at your workstation and in your car.

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It's Time to get Hydrated

Proper hydration is essential not only for your overall health but it will help your muscles perform better during a Pilates or OOV session. Learn the benefits of hydration, how much water you should have each day, and some of our best tips.

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The OOV Difference

The OOV is a tool that challenges stability in all planes of motion. It has been shifting the fitness and rehab landscape in the U.S. in recent years. Its brilliance and unique ability to improve movement comes from its three dimensional design.

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3 Delicious, Healthy, Summertime Recipes

When you leave a summertime Pilates session or an OOV class at Taylor Pilates and Fitness, continue your healthy habits with great food choices outside the Pilates studio. Try a meal that is healthy and easy to make

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Why Your Pilates Practice Will Benefit from Cardio Training

While Pilates and functional fitness train whole body movement, muscle endurance, stability and mobility, your body still needs cardio (or cardiovascular training). Cardio training is what we feel you should be incorporating outside the Pilates

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Ways to Cardio Train and Enjoy Summer in Colorado

Cardio training is an important element to a healthy lifestyle and in Colorado there’s no need to do it all on the treadmill.

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