The Workout
The workout
Experience the ultimate workout with our Resistance classes, integrating Pilates principles and slow resistance strength training.
Featuring Montreal’s first XFormer machines, our high-energy classes provide an effective and transformative workout.
Designed for all genders, body types, and fitness levels, our workouts provide a comprehensive full-body training experience. Each class is led by expert instructors, energized by motivating playlists, and meticulously sequenced to achieve muscle failure, ensuring maximum results. Whether you’re a beginner or an athlete, our adaptable sessions help you stay in shape, break plateaus, and enhance your fitness performance and overall well-being.
The Method
The core of our approach and class programming is Slow Resistance Training (SRT). This method involves methodically paced, controlled, and intense movements that specifically target slow-twitch muscles. The goal is to activate long and lean muscle fibres while boosting endurance, flexibility, and strength.
SRT is designed to recruit muscle fibers sequentially and in an orderly fashion, rather than all at once. This requires a level of intensity that progresses through all three types of muscle fibers. The key is to find a balance: the intensity should be high enough to prevent only fast-twitch fibers from getting the bulk of the stimulation, but not so slow that the slow-twitch and intermediate fibers have time to recover.
Our Resistance classes are meticulously designed to achieve these goals, making them smart, efficient, and results-driven. By maintaining continuous effort with sufficient intensity, we keep our bodies engaged, activating deeper layers of muscle fibers until we reach muscle failure, which leads to results. By eliminating momentum, SRT ensures that the work is done by the muscles rather than the connective tissues and joints.
Join Resistance and experience a training method that strengthens your core, builds full-body resilience, and sculpts long, lean muscles. Our low-impact, joint-friendly workouts reduce injury risk while enhancing balance, flexibility, and posture. You’ll improve bone density, fuel every other way you move, and enjoy continuous challenges that deliver real, lasting results.
The Classes
Signature Full Body
Resistance’s signature full-body strength training class is a 50-minute, high-intensity Pilates experience on our state-of-the-art Xformer machines.
This class is all about building strength. By combining Pilates principles with our slow resistance method—deliberate, controlled movements that eliminate momentum and target your slow-twitch muscles—you’ll maximize muscle engagement and efficiency.
Led by expert instructors and fueled by energizing playlists, every session delivers a powerful, strength-focused workout that pushes your limits and drives real results.
Fundamentals
Fundamentals is your entry point into Resistance’s strength training method—a 50-minute, full-body class on the Xformer. Designed for beginners and anyone looking to refine their practice, this class emphasizes strength through precision, form, and foundational movements.
The slower pace and detailed instruction provide the perfect environment to build confidence and technique. Newcomers will find it approachable and strength-focused, while experienced clients will be challenged by the deeper holds and muscle engagement.
Glutes + Core
Our Glutes + Core class is a 50-minute, high-intensity Pilates workout on the Xformer with targeted strength training for your glutes, hamstrings, and core—especially the abdominals, obliques, and lower back.
It’s the ideal complement to our Signature Full Body class, offering precision focus while still delivering the full-body intensity you love. (Don’t worry—your glutes still get plenty of work in Full Body too!)
Experience the power of slow resistance: deliberate, controlled movements that challenge your muscles, build strength, and increase endurance.
Upper Body + Core
This 50-minute high-intensity Pilates workout delivers focused strength training for your chest, back, arms, abdominals, and obliques—driven by slow resistance training on the Xformer.
Upper Body + Core is the perfect complement to our Signature Full Body class, which emphasizes more lower-body work. (And yes, Full Body still includes upper-body strength too!)
Expect deliberate, controlled movements that eliminate momentum and maximize strength and endurance gains.
The
Machine
The machine
The XFormer is an advanced upgrade from the traditional Pilates Reformer machine, engineered to enhance your workouts with a more intense, strength-focused regimen.
Design
This sophisticated piece of equipment harnesses the power of a system of springs, straps, and cables, along with your body weight, to provide diverse and dynamic resistance. Its design enables smooth, fast transitions between exercises, effectively engaging all muscle groups to enhance strength and endurance while being gentle on the joints.
Designed for greater versatility and accessibility, the XFormer features adjustable resistance levels and multiple positioning options for hands and feet to accommodate various fitness levels. Thanks to its advanced nature, the XFormer offers hundreds of exercise options, far surpassing the variety available on traditional Pilates reformers.
Its innovative features include:
- Adjustable Springs Springs give us a balanced and progressive wide range of motion and we can train effectively to match the strength curve of our muscles.
- Carriage A moving platform equipped with springs that boosts stability and adjusts resistance to match the intensity of the exercise.
- Handlebars Located at both ends of the machine to increase the variety of exercises you can perform.
- Cables Provide extra support and resistance for focused arm and leg workouts.
- Platforms Located at the front and back, equipped with multiple handholds to support different shoulder and wrist anatomies assisting proper muscle recruitment and reducing impact. Each platform utilizes a strap to assist in stability.
Experience the difference with the XFormer at Resistance.