Melissa Bentivoglio is a classically trained ballet dancer and a renowned Pilates and fitness instructor. Melissa credits her dedication to Pilates as having changed her life after years of elite level performance. In 2018, she designed her own proprietary Reformer for use in her own studio. By launching Frame, she hopes to make Pilates more widely available and accessible, so that everyone has a chance to improve their quality of life.
The Pilates world is very steep in foundation, but often it lacks innovation, I had the idea to create my own reformer.
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Frame Fitness is reinventing the Pilates reformer by adding a screen for video classes and guided workouts.
This article was produced in partnership with Thomas Herd When you think of Pilates, most people imagine sleek studios filled with women gracefully maneuvering on a reformer. While Pilates is a form of exercise that is typically categorized as one for women, it was actually created by a man—Joseph Pilates—and, since its inception, has evolved…