At Peak Performance Private Pilates, a private one-to-one session costs $160 booked ad hoc. A 10-session package is $1,500 with 4 months’ validity, and a 20-session package is $2,800 with 6 months’ validity. New clients start with an initial consultation at $135. If you train with a partner, tandem sessions are $110 per person for a single session, or $1,000 per person for a 10-session package with 4 months’ validity.
Every session runs 55 minutes, one coach to one client (or two in tandem), with the whole studio available.
What does each package work out to per session?
Divide the package price by the number of sessions. The 10-session package works out to $150 a session ($1,500 ÷ 10), which is $10 less than booking each one ad hoc, or $100 saved across the ten. The 20-session package works out to $140 a session ($2,800 ÷ 20), $20 less than the ad hoc rate, or $400 saved across twenty.
Tandem prices are per person. On a single tandem session each of you pays $110, so the pair pays $220. On the 10-session tandem package each person pays $100 a session ($1,000 ÷ 10), or $200 for the pair.
The initial consultation is a one-off for new clients, so your first outlay is the consultation plus whatever you choose next. With a 10-session package that comes to $1,635; with a 20-session package, $2,935.
Making the validity work for you
The lower rate only counts if you use the sessions before they expire. Ten sessions in 4 months is about two and a half a month, or a little more than one a fortnight. Twenty sessions in 6 months is about three and a third a month, a little under one a week. If your schedule is unpredictable, single sessions or the 10-session package carry less risk than committing to twenty. If you already know you will train regularly through a season, the 20-session package is the lowest rate per session.
What am I paying for in a private session?
Private Pilates costs more per hour than a class because the session is built around one person. Four things account for most of that.
55 minutes of one coach’s attention
The coach watches how you move through each exercise, adjusts the position, the load from the Pilates equipment springs, the range and the pace as you go, and changes the plan if something is not working that day.
Full equipment, chosen for the job
The studio runs on Merrithew equipment: reformer, trapeze table (Cadillac), ladder barrel and stability chair, plus accessories for strength and conditioning work. In a private session the exercise decides the equipment. A single-leg step-up for a runner belongs on the stability chair, while upper-back extension might sit better over a barrel or on the trapeze table. A class built around one type of machine can’t move between them.
A programme built from an assessment
Sessions follow an individual programme. It starts with an assessment of how you move, which is compared with what your sport or goal asks of your body. From there the programme is built, progressively loaded and reassessed around your training or race calendar. Peak Performance sessions are not purely Pilates: they combine Pilates principles with strength and conditioning principles, and mix in strength and conditioning work depending on your goal, with more focus on control of movement. Albert, a powerlifter who trains at the studio, put it this way: “She started with asking what’s my fitness goals or athletic goals. It wasn’t about Pilates at all, it was about me and what was holding me back from achieving what I wanted to achieve.”
Alignment with your coach and physio
Part of the work happens outside the session. The studio aligns with your sport coach, gym trainer and physiotherapist on goals, focus areas and programming, so the Pilates sessions support their plan rather than compete with it. Fiona, a triathlete, described the studio speaking to her coaches and going with her to a bike fitting to see which muscle groups to work on.
How many sessions a week should I budget for?
That is decided at the initial consultation, not before. The right number depends on your training load and your goal, and the studio recommends a frequency once it has assessed you rather than selling a number up front.
Once you know it, the budget is simple arithmetic. At one session a week, a 10-session package lasts about ten weeks and a 20-session package about twenty, both inside their validity. At two a week, ten sessions last about five weeks and twenty about ten. The frequency may also change through a season, with more studio work when your sport’s training load is lighter and less when it peaks.
You are also given exercises to take away, so the work carries on between studio sessions.
Does supervised training make a difference?
There is little research comparing private and group Pilates directly, so the useful evidence comes from the wider training literature. None of it is about Pilates.
Reasonable evidence, in a specific group. Lacroix and colleagues pooled 11 studies of healthy adults aged 65 and over and found that supervised balance and resistance training improved balance and strength more than the same kind of training done unsupervised at home1. The authors urged caution because there were few studies and their quality was moderate, and the findings come from older adults rather than athletes.
Frequency matters mostly through volume. Grgic and colleagues reviewed 22 studies of resistance training frequency. Training more days a week produced larger strength gains, but when total weekly training volume was matched, frequency on its own made no significant difference2. Most participants were untrained. For budgeting, it suggests that the total amount of work you do, across the studio, your sport and your own sessions, matters more than any one number of studio visits.
Practical application. Supervision is most useful when you are learning new movements, returning after time off or working on something specific from your assessment. Once a movement is reliable, some of it can move into the work you do on your own, which is one reason studio frequency can drop as a programme progresses.
When is a group class the better value?
Often, and it is worth being honest about it. If you mainly want regular, enjoyable exercise, have no specific sport, injury or goal you are working towards, and like training with others, a group class gives you more sessions for the same money. A class you will keep going to is better value than private sessions you can only afford occasionally.
Private sessions earn their price when the work needs to be individual: a sport-specific goal, a return to exercise after injury alongside your physio, scoliosis, pregnancy or the months after birth, or a pattern from your assessment that a class would not address. Tandem training sits between the two. You and a partner share the coach and a programme built around a shared sport or goal, and pay less per person than one-to-one, though each of you gets a share of the coach’s attention rather than all of it.
Where to start
New clients begin with an initial consultation at $135. It assesses how you move, looks at your goals and builds the foundations of your individual programme, and it is where the studio recommends how often to train and which option suits you. Purchase the consultation through the pricing page, then book your time on the booking page, or message the studio on WhatsApp if you would like help choosing.