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Your first visit, from the email to the timetable
A first visit is planned the way a stroke is finished: slowly, with every step known before it is taken. Nothing here is a surprise on the day.
Before you come
Everything starts with the founding list. Open a member account, mark the formats, days and parts of the day that suit you, then ask for an intro session in up to three windows of the planned week and apply for the Foundation block, all from the account; or, if you would rather, write to classes@extremepilates.live with the same.
Please send nothing more personal than that. Anything that changes how a machine should be set for you is talked through in person with the instructor before your first session, and it stays in the studio. The member account asks only for your name, email, a password and your preferences, never about health or your body: what it keeps.
Getting here
The studio is being set up on Crownpoint Road, on the north edge of Bridgeton where it meets Calton and Barrowfield, in Glasgow’s east end.
- By train
- Bridgeton station is a short walk away.
- The river side
- Glasgow Green and the Clyde are a few minutes on foot to the south-west.
- Registered office
- 142 Crownpoint Road GLASGOW, G40 2AE United Kingdom
- Entrance and hours
- Published with the timetable.
Arriving
- Come ten to fifteen minutes before the start, so nothing is rushed
- Wear grip socks on the reformer: soles with grips hold on the footbar and platform
- Choose fitted clothing, so no fabric catches in the springs, ropes or wheels
- Bags, shoes and phones stay off the floor and away from the machines
Orientation on the machine
Everything else is built on stopping the carriage under control.
Your first time on a reformer is spent learning the machine, not a class. The instructor shows you how to get on and off the carriage, how springs are hooked on and taken off, how the footbar, headrest and shoulder rests are set, and how the straps and loops are held.
Above all, you practise stopping the carriage from anywhere along the rails and bringing it home to the stopper gently, until it feels ordinary.
The route, in seven stages
The same for everyone, and taken at your pace.
Founding list
Your member account, or an email, as above.
Welcome conversation
In person, at the start of your intro session.
Orientation
In the same visit: one short session on the machine.
Foundation block
A small closed group over a set number of sessions.
Placement
Mixed classes, more foundation or privates, chosen together.
Timetable
Regular classes, with a waiting list when a class is full.
Review
A check every so often on format and level.
Questions
If something about a first visit is unclear, ask before you come rather than on the day, and someone at the studio will answer. How the machines are set, and why the spring colours matter, is explained on the apparatus page.