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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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