Pilates Olive Keyes

Award Winning Pilates Instructor

'Wellness Expert' Healthcare Ireland

"You are the expert in your own body, let me empower you TO Take Control of your own health and body"

Olive Keyes

Public class times can be found by clicking on the link above. I’m now taking bookings for September 2019.

If you’re interested in a Workplace/Occupational Health booking, Group/ Club/ GAA/ Hurling/ Rugby/Team, etc. please click on the ‘Contact us’ button at the bottom of the page.

Pilates and Olive Keyes, what's it about?

Olive Keyes is an Award Winning Pilates instructor who won the 'Best in Health and Fitness' with the Westmeath Style Awards 2017 and was a finalist with the Athlone Chamber of Commerce Business Awards 2018.

She is the only Pilates instructor in Athlone, Westmeath and Midlands on the panel as a 'Wellness Expert' with a leading health care provider Ireland ‘Laya Healthcare’ -Spectrum Health and featured in the Sunday Business Post ‘Paving a path for Health and Wellness in the Midlands’.

From the new Beginner to the Elite Athlete, Olive caters for all levels and abilities. She has been involved in Athletics throughout her life, from participating in Pentathlons, Triathlons, Half Marathons and 10ks, both nationally and internationally across the world. Along the way Olive picked up injuries and from this, became aware of the benefits of Pilates. She learned how Pilates is a great tool to assist, or accelerate a physiotherapy program when coming back from an injury.

After her own spinal injury, Olive spent many years training in the Pilates system which is based on it's founder - the late 'Josef Pilates', she also holds a (MA) in Health Science from NUIG and Post Grad in Pilates with aspects of Clinical Pilates, through this extensive background, she tailored and developed a strategy to work on her own rehabilitation program, her popularity grew and with a expansive following, she started teaching. This has led to her vast experience in Pilates with: Chronic pain, back pain, sports injuries, and recovery & rehabilitation.

Pilates Olive Keyes caters for a wide variety of challenges such as:

Neck and back pain/ pathologies
Pre/post surgery
Joint, muscle and postural issues
Sciatica
Fibromyalgia
Osteoporosis
Arthritis
Weight Loss
Scoliosis
Asthma
Stroke
Pre/post natal (e.g. c. section, Diastasis Recti)

Olive's experience includes working with various individuals and groups, such as:

Groups

Mens and Womens' Groups
Corporate/Workplace groups
Active Age, Super Seniors
Athletes
Healthcare Packages
Irish Wheel Chair Association
Pre/Post Partum
Schools-Teachers/ Staff/ Students.
Child & Children Groups

Teams

‘Fit Farmers’ and Operation Transformation members who featured on RTE ‘Ear to the ground’ and ‘Nationwide’, Moore, Co. Roscommon.
Professional Rugby player Jack Carty with the Irish Rugby Team.
Members of the Buccaneers Senior Rugby Team.
Roscommon Senior Hurling team.
Members of the Westmeath GAA Team.
Please feel free to view all the written reviews, videos and testimonials from people who have benefited and experienced the Pilates Olive Keyes teachings. Reviews can be found by clicking on here.

What is Pilates?

Pilates is a dynamic conditioning form of exercise, which specifically targets our deep, core muscles. Core muscles are also referred to as your core stability. Pilates and core stability go hand in hand. Core stability muscles include deep abdominal, back and pelvic floor muscles. Pilates is named after its inventor, the late Joseph Pilates. In his youth, he was a sickly child, he overcame physical illness by studying exercise rehabilitation and he developed his own form of exercise, which we now recognised as Pilates.

Unlike some forms of exercise, Pilates does not over-develop some parts of the body and neglect others. While Pilates training focuses on core strength, it trains the body as an integrated whole. Pilates workouts promote strength and balanced muscle development as well as flexibility and increased range of motion for the joints.