Ireland's West Wood Health Clubs has expanded its group exercise and pilates activities with the creation of dedicated pilates studios at two of its sites in Dublin: Clontarf and Leopardstown.

Each studio has been equipped with 20 Total Gym GTS machines, which were launched at LIW 2011.

A further 20 are planned for the chain's Sandymount site.

The equipment was installed last month, with training throughout April ahead of a launch this month.

Total Gym will be used to offer the traditional and evolved pilates programming offered by the GRAVITY Training System.

If the floorspace is needed for larger matbased classes, the units can be folded for storage in a matter of seconds, to a footprint of just over 0.5sq m.