About UMove Fitness
UMove Fitness has a unique combination of Pilates, Calisthenics, and Movement concepts to train people to move better.
UMove Fitness works deeply in providing physical education rather than just physical training by enhancing the classes with additional online training materials.
“Our goal is to help people bring out their inner child in them waiting to move and play!”
Our Story
It started with Michel Velasco opening up Pilates Plus in 2013 mainly to teach Pilates exercises to his long-time clients in Singapore.
But because of Michel’s varied interest in sports and other exercises, we started to teach Calisthenics and Movement classes. That is when we decided to add UMove into our name.This gave us more freedom to open teach other classes that compliment with Pilates training.
Our Training Methodology
Start with Pilates
When you train with us, we recommend you to start with Pilates classes first. This is to build a good foundation of body awareness and decent overall strength and flexibility.
Progress with Calisthenics
Once a good base of fitness is laid out through Pilates training, we widen your base further by gradually progressing towards Calisthenics training.
More freedom with Movement concepts
One unique element that we provide in our training is what we have learned from attending Ido Portal’s workshops and Movement camps. Working with the Movement concept covers a very wide range of training about moving the body. We work on coordination training, footwork, balance, and even visual training to exemplify the concept. This type of training is incorporated around the classes that we teach especially in our Calisthenics classes.
Our team
A Vision Rooted in Experience
The foundation of UMove Fitness was laid by Michel Velasco, Physiotherapist by degree with over 2 decades of experience in rehabilitation, competitive sports, Pilates and fitness teaching.
His journey melded him where he trained under world-renowned Pilates Masters and movement experts.
Michel saw a gap between traditional fitness training and rehabilitation - people were working out, but weren't training how to move efficiently to prevent injuries or gain real independence... at the same time patients are going through rehabilitation without really reaching their full potential to move better.
This inspired him to create a method of teaching that blended science-backed training with movement exploration, offering a holistic approach to fitness.
We are a team of passionate fitness practitioners who live each day trying to improve not only our health but the health and fitness knowledge of our students. We are not regular fitness instructors who get certified without years of practice. The reverse is true for our team. We are mostly practitioners for years first and ended up teaching what we love to do.
Our main priorities are ensuring that each of our students gets stronger, more flexible, and adaptable to their environment.
We believe in a simple approach; that means no fancy equipment or trendy exercise that are here today and gone tomorrow.
We share this simple, straightforward, effective, and sustainable training method that our clients not only benefit from in the present but as they age gracefully through time.
Join us, and become a part of a community that moves with purpose.