Pilates Spare PartsA Pilates pulley is the small wheel-and-housing assembly that redirects a reformer’s ropes or straps around a fixed point — typically at the tower uprights, the top of the frame, or the risers behind the shoulder blocks — so that spring resistance travelling horizontally from the carriage can be delivered to the user’s hands or … Read more
A Pilates reformer rope is the flexible line — braided cord or coated cable — that runs from the carriage or spring bar, over one or more pulleys mounted on the frame or risers, to the footbar attachment or to the hand and foot straps. It is the component that redirects a reformer’s spring resistance … Read more
Bonpilates is a Spanish manufacturer that keeps its entire production process in-house at a single factory near Alicante, on Spain’s Mediterranean coast. Its pitch is straightforward: professional-grade reformers, Cadillacs, chairs, and barrels built and finished domestically, with heavy emphasis on customization and after-sales support for the studios that buy from it. For a studio owner … Read more
Elina Pilates is a Spanish equipment brand built around one clear pitch: professional-grade reformers and studio apparatus at a noticeably lower price point than the big American and Canadian brands, without cutting corners on materials. For a studio owner comparing brands, Elina Pilates sits in a useful middle position: European-distributed, wide catalog, and priced to … Read more
BASI Systems is the equipment brand behind BASI Pilates, the teacher-training organization founded by Rael Isacowitz in 1989. Where older manufacturers like Gratz build around fidelity to Joseph Pilates’ original designs, BASI Systems sits at the opposite end of the spectrum: contemporary industrial design, modular hardware, and a proprietary multi-port spring system built specifically for … Read more
Align-Pilates is a British-designed brand built around a simple pitch: studio-quality Pilates apparatus at a lower price point than most of its competitors, without cutting corners on the components that actually wear out. In November 2024 it joined the Merrithew family, giving it access to a much larger global distribution network than most mid-sized manufacturers … Read more
Peak Pilates is one of the few major Pilates equipment brands built from the outset around group exercise as much as one-on-one studio work, a legacy of joining the Mad Dogg Athletics family — the company behind the Spinning® indoor cycling program — in 2009. Where Gratz stays close to Joseph Pilates’ original specifications and … Read more
Two Pilates springs can be the same color, the same brand, even the same advertised resistance, and still not fit the same machine. Color and resistance labels describe how a spring feels; they say nothing about whether it will physically seat in your Reformer’s spring bar or hold its geometry once loaded. That is entirely … Read more
A Pilates spring is a helical extension spring: a coil of hardened steel wire with a hook or loop formed at each end, mounted between a reformer’s frame and its moving carriage. It is the component that converts a sliding platform into a resistance training tool. Every other part of a reformer — the frame, … Read more
Gratz is the name most closely associated with classical Pilates equipment: the original manufacturer that built Joseph Pilates’ own designs, and the brand still used by many of the method’s most traditional teachers and training programs today. For a studio owner comparing equipment brands, Gratz sits in a different category from mass-market manufacturers like Balanced … Read more