The rise of reformer Pilates

Milena Jaksic has built her Platinum Pilates business to include studios in seven locations. She counts the Leinster rugby team among her clients, but she is just as interested in helping a 60-year-old woman who is in pain or overweight

Milena Jaksic: ‘Everybody should get an opportunity at some point to experience Pilates because it changes everything’

How’s your core strength? Grand? Average? Do you really mean bad? Your response might change if you found yourself lying on a moveable carriage with both arms looped into stirrup-like pully devices, preparing for stomach muscle exercise. Maybe, like me, you’d be cautious and play it weak in the hope of mercy from instructor and owner of Platinum Pilates Milena Jaksic.

“Eh, fine, I think,” was my worried reply. After completing moves under ...