Fifty2Pilates

The Sandwich Era 🥪

I’d heard of this before but didn’t expect it to hit as hard as it has.
So many of us seem to be right in the middle of it.

Would love to know if this resonates with you too 🤍

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SMALL PROP. PLENTY OF SPICE. 🌶️

The ball will always be my go-to 🤍 What’s yours?

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Dressed by

This week’s agenda: move, teach, plan, repeat 🤎

Currently doing it all in chocolate 🍫

At 33, I probably would have said no.

Not because I wasn’t capable.

Because I didn’t think I looked the part.

I’d have worried about my stomach.
My thighs.
My skin.
Whether I was “fit enough” to wear activewear.

Fast forward twenty years…

When invited me to model for them, my first thought wasn’t “Am I good enough?”

It was…

“What a brilliant opportunity. Let’s do it.”

That’s one of the biggest gifts midlife has given me.

And if seeing a 53-year-old Pilates instructor in an activewear campaign helps one woman stop waiting until she feels “perfect” before saying yes to life…

Then every wrinkle was worth it. ❤️

Outfits:

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The best instructors never stop being students.

Today was all about barre training… and I definitely felt that burn. 🔥

One thing I’ve promised myself as an instructor is that I’ll never stop investing in my own learning.

Every workshop, every course and every new discipline gives me more tools to help the women I teach move with confidence, build strength and enjoy exercise for years to come.

Barre challenged me in a completely different way. Tiny movements, serious muscular endurance and a whole lot of shaking!

I’m already excited to start weaving some of these barre-inspired ideas into my Pilates classes when I’m back in Dubai.

Thank you to the team at for such a brilliant day of training and inspiration. My legs may never forgive you… but my clients probably will. 🤍

The instructors I remember most aren’t the ones with the most polished Instagram feed.

They’re the ones who made me feel something.

Their personality.

Their energy.

The way they explained something.

The way they made people feel seen.

That’s what stayed with me.

It’s easy to look around and think you need to teach like someone else.

Use the same language.

Create the same reels.

Follow the same trends.

But if everyone is trying to teach the same way, we lose the very thing that makes this industry so special.

Learn from the instructors you admire.

Take courses.

Keep learning.

Be inspired.

Then close Instagram…

Walk into your class…

And teach like you.

Because your clients won’t remember the perfectly curated reel.

They’ll remember how you made them feel.

Inspiration builds good instructors.

Authenticity builds unforgettable ones. 🤍