While equipment isn’t essential for Pilates workouts - it's actually known as one of the most effective bodyweight workouts you can do - certain Pilates tools can be useful for mixing things up and challenging your body in new ways. Our favourite? A Pilates sculpt bar.
With search for the workout tool up 750% on Google Trends at current, it's certainly having its moment. This is likely because Pilates is more popular than ever right now - you'll have seen the 28 day Pilates challenge and Pilates wall workouts taking over TikTok this year. That said, it's not just another fitness fad sure to drop off the map in a couple of months. There are a whole range of benefits of Pilates - it's low-impact, gentle on the joints, and research indicates it improves flexibility, abdominal and lumbopelvic stability, and muscle strength, too.
