We also did Pilates classes for two weeks.

Pilates classes range in cost from $60 to $70 an hour, comparable to the rates of a personal trainer, she said.

I'd also like to try the scalp massage and the Pilates classes, which weren't available on the days I was there.

Hard work is important, but that comes before inspiration: in your years of training, in your ballet class, in the Pilates classes.

This perhaps explains the Pilates class held every Wednesday in certain corporate auditoriums.

She gets to a Pilates class at least three times a week, hits the treadmill a couple times a week and works out .

The eyes couldn't get a better workout if they were in a Pilates class.

"I kept ignoring that fact and thinking, I'll just go to Pilates class every day."

There's little research to back up these claims, but that hasn't stopped people from flocking to Pilates classes.

Not even heroic amounts of Pilates classes and volume discounts on cosmetic surgery could change that.