Precision Pilates brings you Pilates classes and private Pilates tuition in and around Farnham and Haslemere, Surrey for beginners to advanced students. 

Being able to move well is essential to our health. But our lifestyles get in the way, favouring less and less movement from a smaller repertoire. Through our movements we create imbalances that may cause aches and pains or lead to injury.

Pilates reverses this unnecessary deterioration, improving the way you move, stand, sit and feel.

When you learn Pilates, you re-learn movement and body awareness in a way that helps tackle many of today’s key lifestyle failings:

• Bad posture puts unnecessary strain on your body – not just muscles but bones and all those internal squidgy bits too! Your body locks up and then starts hurting. Improved alignment and posture will give you more energy, less pain and be noticed by others.
• Reduced mobility can be a one-way street towards tiny shuffling steps, an expensive collection of avante garde zimmer frames or being chair-bound. Keeping fully mobile and having the strength to control it not only feels great now but also helps later too.
• Improved core strength opens the door to more challenging tasks that require greater strength and mobility.  Whether it is standing or sitting for long periods, or apparently more demanding tasks, you will be comfortable doing it for longer with a fitter core.
• A mind body connection is essential for intelligent exercising – directing the action and responding to how it feels. You cannot train the nervous system to develop effectively whilst reading a magazine and watching the big screen. As you learn to feel how and what you are doing your control, coordination and balance develop.

• improve your fitness, core strength and posture;
• recover more quickly and safely from an injury or operation;
• relax, release tension and feel great;
• learn to move more efficiently;
• the experience to listen to your body and know what to do with what you feel.

• the discipline of having to exercise on a regular basis – the benefits above don’t fall off trees onto the deserving once a year (sorry!);
• a continually changing program of exercises that progresses at a challenging and yet appropriate pace;
• someone watching how you move and correcting mistakes – that doesn’t happen on DVDs very often nowadays!

Nick Oakley is a qualified Body Control Pilates® instructor, a member of the Body Control Pilates Association, a Level 3 Pilates Instructor on the Register of Exercise Professionals, has completed over 1,000 hours of teaching Pilates and runs Precision Pilates.  In addition to running his own classes and private sessions, he also works closely with Farnham Physiotherapy and Sports Clinic practitioners and clients, taking classes and private sessions for the Sports Clinic.

The focus in class and private sessions is to help clients improve their body awareness, control, strength and stamina enabling more precise and efficient movement patterns whilst advancing their fitness levels both in and out of the class environment... although some clients do like to come along to relax!

Seeing the improvements in a clients understanding of themselves, quality of movement and self esteem as they realise and feel the benefits of Pilates is one of the highlights of teaching Pilates - check out the testimonials page to see what the people say.

Body Control Pilates® is based upon the method of body-conditioning and training developed by Joseph Pilates. It is an exercise method which relies on strengthening core postural muscles and developing body alignment. It avoids the muscle and ligament damage sometimes associated with other fitness regimes.

Your awareness is heightened by bringing together mind and body - Body Control Pilates literally teaches you to be in control of your body, allowing you to handle stress more effectively and achieve relaxation more easily.

Exercises can be mat or machine based and are particularly safe for those with back problems (95% of the UK population has, or has had, backache). Its consistent success rate in solving such problems has brought it to the attention of osteopaths, chiropractors, physiotherapists and homeopathic doctors.