Modern Pilates is one of the most fun yet effective ways to strengthen and lengthen your body - 6 exercises to try

A woman trying Modern Pilates in a studio wearing black gym kit.

You can't fail to notice the sheer number of Pilates studios springing up on every high street in the country right now. Sleek, sophisticated and all over our socials, the effortlessly cool Pilates-girl aesthetic is certainly having a moment as more and more of us hop on the trend, and inevitably, the practice is adapting in response. Enter: modern Pilates moves.

While some of the more recent iterations of Pilates (HIIT, power, hot, wall and so on) might make the purists quake in their grippy socks, modern Pilates owes more to its eponymous founder than simply a name.