For the past few years, Pilates exercises have been the trendy fitness regime of choice for many Hollywood stars. But Andrea Kennerley, the owner of Optimum Pilates in Montclair, doesn’t think Pilates ...

Pilates — once a niche strength, mobility, and recovery technique for dancers — has gone mainstream. The low-intensity, muscle-strengthening workout can promote flexibility, mobility, and posture.

Here, in a nutshell, are the specs: a wooden board firmly affixed to a wall. On this: parallel pairs of hooks, spaced about shoulder-width apart, evenly arrayed from bottom to top like rungs on a ...