The PILATES Room & ANTIGRAVITY Studio

My husband and I tried aerial yoga here our second day in town. The instructor is very knowledgeable and the class is really low key while still allowing you to challenge yourself. I would definitely come back. The studio is clean, well air-​conditioned, and serene. It’s a great spot and I can’t believe it wasn’t more crowded. If you book online make sure to call and confirm your date as the booking system isn’t perfect yet.

I have been doing Pilates at the Pilates Room for 1 ½ years. Currently, I see Leslie for private sessions, which I love! She has taken the time to understand my issues and I have made good improvement. I love that I can ask them about other issues, sometimes unrelated to Pilates but related to overall health, and they will offer sound advice. They offer a variety of classes and are always trying to find new ways to help their clients.

The Pilates Room & Antigravity Studio is a wonderful place to exercise. I need the group to get motivated, and it’s not too far away! so when they decided to move to the Fall Creek area I was extremely excited… i have just either to walk or bike!
All instructors are very professional, always ready to help you, to correct you, to suggest any adjustment if needed due to an injury etc… or simply to improve your posture which is my weakness…
Classes are small, and you’re always welcome even you arrive late… it’s a friendly atmosphere… fun but very serious at the same time.
I tried almost all classes since they moved. They offer a good repertoire of classes at different times during the day. So, it’s easy to switch to try something else when you want to break the routine. I recently started the Barre with Kimberley… I love it! She’s very professional, fun. Even if I’m not very flexible I feel good in the class… just after few times. She’s always on time, very well prepared, makes changes, tries new things…
I’m so glad that they moved to my neighborhood.

This is a great place for a variety of classes and approaches. The schedule has many classes and time slots, which is a plus; instructors are friendly; class sizes are small. The studio offers classes I haven’t seen at other Ithaca studios, such as Urban Rebounding (trampolines!) and Anti-​Gravity fitness. The TRX system class is a good workout and tests both muscles and mind. Tip: if you arrive close to class time, just head into the group fitness classroom instead of waiting outside!

I’m not sure what the earlier reviewer was talking about, but I’ve been going to the Pilates Studio since last August and it has been fabulous for me. When I began, I couldn’t come close to touching my toes, my sense of balance of poor, and I was generally weak. I feared serious physical challenges as I aged further. Now I feel better than I did 30 years ago.
I’ve taken several different classes (pilates, of course, barre and rebounding) and experienced six different instructors and they’ve all been uniformly strong.
And last, but not least, the other «students» are a very diverse group (from undergrads to retirees and a broad range of interests). There’s a very positive, supportive, social feel and that makes it even more enjoyable.

Being a person who can’t/won’t work out on their own, needing more personal attention and group-​dynamics to get motivated, The Pilates Room is the perfect place for me. The owners have created a fitness-​family environment and I’m greeted by people who know my name every time I walk in. The classes are small, which allows for lots of personal attention and adjustments. The staff is knowledgable and passionate, resulting in kick-​ass classes that are dynamic and diverse. I’m 19 weeks pregnant now and all of the instructors have been lovely and supportive about creating exercises and giving me modifications to maintain my fitness level throughout my pregnancy. It’s been wonderful!
I highly recommend Kimberly’s Barre class! It’s my new obsession. It’s fun and hurts so good. :) Also, before I was pregnant, I LOVED the antigravity classes! I’d only ever seen those classes in Manhattan! How lucky are we that the Pilates Room has brought Antigravity fitness to us in Ithaca!

At first, I was really thrilled to see the Pilates Room open up in its great new location and really desperate to find a good pilates studio.
Having tried to be patient for about 6 months, thinking they were working out the kinds, I am totally frustrated with this place.
Overall the impression is of a business that is lackadaisical, indifferent to customers and sorely missing in any kind of professionalism.
Sadly, because there is such a demand, I don’t think they will ever improve their business practices, which are atrocious.
So, here are my complaints:
(1) I have never gone into the studio and actually seen someone available at the front desk; it is always empty.
(2) You are supposed to call and leave a message if you want information but it seems hard to get a return phone call.
(3) When I decided to sign up for class credit, the person operating the system did not know how it worked, so it took probably 20 minutes for her to figure it out and get me signed up.
(4) Over the summer, the studio head (s) took a vacation without bothering to train the staff how to operate their system, so when I tried to go for a class the poor clueless class leader couldn’t look me up and almost didn’t let me take the class. After several minutes she decided to trust me and look it up later. Harassment I didn’t need.
(5) The next time I went in they had changed their class credit system but once again, the person leading the class did not know how it worked, so the end result was that I got overcharged for classes used.
(6) More than once the class has started a good 10 minutes late.
(7) Their web site is completely dysfunctional for Mac users — which in a college town like Ithaca, I am guessing number many more than just me. It is not possible to sign up and reserve classes online — consequently one faces an awkward situation by going in the class and possibly not having any spaces left. When I brought this up to them, they expressed no interest in fixing the problem nor did they even apologize for the inconvenience. They said I should just call. Of course no one ever picks up the phone, but they said leave a message. OK…
(8) I guess this one is my fault, but after having tried unsuccessfully to sign up for classes for 2 weeks through my Mac, I finally just decided to go into class and risk not having any spots (which did turn out to be the case) — only to discover that my class card has expired. I guess the expiration date was written on the card, but it seems stingy to expect people to jump through so many hoops and deal with such a difficult, dysfunctional system — and then say «whoops! better do it again, your class card is already expired.» I can see the reason behind an expiration date, but 60 days is not that long. I think the expiration period should be at least twice that.
Pilates Room — I know you guys are pilates teachers first and foremost, and not business people. I can see that you are dedicated to Pilates — and actually all the instructors have done a great job with teaching the classes themselves… But for goodness’ sake please grow some business skills. You may not realize it, but it is ultimately disrespectful to your customers to expect them to deal with such a sloppy operation.
So, after today, I’ve had it. I’m going to try Blackbird…