One of the more challenging aspects of owning a professionally equipped Pilates studio is figuring out how to store all the odd shaped and, lets face it, difficult to manage equipment required to customize each students experience. Because floor space is at a premium, just about every studio owner looks to the wall as their first choice for keeping that odd spring or apparatus handy until needed.

Arc Arms

A perfect example are the Balanced Body Arcs that have proven so popular. Lightweight and not very large, they won’t stack and when not being used just take up space. The answer was to get it on the wall, but just how wasn’t clear at first.

Our YPL solution was the Arc Arms, a lightweight compact rack crafted out of hardwood to compliment our towers, reformers and chairs. Now, our Arcs are stored out of the way but within easy reach, effectively reducing the clutter without affecting the ambience.

Tower Accessories

Next, we constructed new tower accessory and spring storage in a more accessable location. Because not every student is six feet tall, reaching the hooks that came with our Basil towers was a chore. Now, all the various springs and handles are within easy reach when needed and neatly hung out of the way the rest of the time.

Reformer Feet

The most recent solution came about after discovering that particularly vigorous use of the reformer jump board would cause the reformer to “walk” across the hard floor surface, which at the very least caused a big distraction to the student’s training. We tried carpet tape and non-skid padding but the problem boiled down to a lack of surface area on the reformers’ legs.

The answer: Reformer Feet, simple MDF boards that attach behind and between the reformer legs with hidden fasteners and offering over 180 square inches of surface area: more than enough for a single thickness of non-skid pad to prevent walking, no matter how intense the workout.

The lesson is that keeping a studio running on all eight cylinders often calls for an individual approach that respects style and works as intended.