• Fitness & Training - Product Reviews

    Carriage Before the Horse: A Coach’s Field Guide to Buying Your First Home Reformer

    Three different clients asked me the same question within a single week this September, and none of them knew the others had asked it. “Should I buy a reformer?” Not a treadmill. Not a fancy watch. A Pilates reformer — the sliding carriage, the springs, the footbar, the whole pulled-straight-from-a-studio apparatus — for their house. When a question shows up three times in seven days, I stop treating it as small talk and start treating it as an assignment. So my team and I spent the past few weeks pulling spec sheets, checking weight capacities, folding and unfolding machines, and…