Caroline's Power Pilates, Aqua, Fitness and Life

23/06/2026

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Be careful, some beautiful Jellies in the bay this morning! 🌅
They have arrived a little early this year.🪼

22/06/2026

Hope you all had a wonderful day.
Classes for next week are
In The Abbey💒
Mon 12.30pm
Mon 6.30pm
Fri 9.30am
Fri 11am and
Fri 6pm ( but please forward names for this class🙏🏻 )
Sat 9.30am.💪🏻🏋🏻
Masonic hall Hamilton road, on the corner opposite hairdressers and the coffee shop.
Parking on Hamilton road, in car park behind PaPa Joe's building, or car park facing teddy's in Castle street.
In the sea 🌊
Sat 11.15am.
Take care and see you soon.xx🫂❤️
*Halls not available on Thursday *

03/06/2026

[03/06, 09:21] Caroline: Thought of you when I read this! Who needs scientists when we have our Caroline x 😉🤗
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Could lifting weights actually help you live longer? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0r2lekenlpo
[03/06, 09:21] Caroline:
🫂 Sharon from our Monday and Thursday classes sent me this, this morning.🤗
It's everything I have always been telling you and the reason why we do everything we do in all of our classes! 🤷🏻
I have always believed this, all of my teaching life.🤷🏻
So you knew it first!🤗
Have a great day everyone 🙏🏻make it the best you can and keep your hearts up.❤️
Lot's of love as always
See you soon. xx🙏🏻🫂❤️

Regular weight training can significantly reduce the risk of early death, research suggests.

02/06/2026

Hello all,👋🏻
From the blue 🔵 skies and sun 🌞 to a rainy day in the park watching the geese🪿🦆 lined up along the edge of the pond, almost stunned in amazement 😲 at the torrential rain🌧️, all within 12 hours!
It was lovely to be back with you all for our classes yesterday ❤️.
I have just watched an incredible movie on Netflix called ' The Giant Falls '.
It is a subtitled movie but an amazing story line and if you can connect to it on a personal level, it hits on a completely different level.
You will need your tissues.
It is well worth a watch👀
Take care and see you soon xx ❤️🫂🙏🏻

30/05/2026

Hi everyone 🤗
I hope you are all well.
Classes next week will be back to normal
In the Abbey💒
Mon 12.30pm
Mon 6.30pm
Thurs 9.30am
Thurs 11am
Thurs 6pm
In the Park 🏞️ Sat 9.30am
In the sea ⛵
Sat 11.15am
Take care and see you soon.xx🫂😂

26/05/2026

Hi everyone 🤗
I just couldn't believe it! 😮.
I knew when I put my chair on the sand that I hadn't opened the legs enough, sorted out the umbrella 🏖️, etc and yes you guessed it.
I forgot, sat on the chair and it just bent me forward and swallowed me up!
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Phillip called me
' The rare Málaga hermit Crab ' 🦀.
Oh my God how I laughed, I just couldn't get up out of the chair.
Phillip sent the photo to Maurice who chair it just cracked him up.
At least it wasn't family🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 day at the beach 🏖️
How not🙄 to put your chair up on the beach⛱️😱
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24/05/2026

Hello everyone🙋🏻
I hear You had blue 🔵 skies all the way🌞🌞🌞 I hope you are all well
I was thinking🤔 lately about that phrase we often hear, 🙉 or say 🙊" Go and make some beautiful memories " and many of us do say it, or have said it and continue to do so!
We say things like you will always have your memories, but that's not really true, is it?
For so many of those we know and love, those memories made are no longer retrievable, or available😟
We find ourselves living in a world were so many cannot recognise the faces of those they loved so much.
The years spent together through thick and thin are a past time that cannot be recalled.
We think about our own mortality and those we do not want to burden if ever we found ourselves in that situation.🙆🏻
Those of us with one child and how we would never want them to be in a situation of feeling they need to be there for us, to take the burden, or pick up the peaces of a life lost in time.
We think about 'care ' and the horrific and horrendous stories that were highlighted only a week ago in our own local media.
We hear talk about lessons learned, changes made, things never to be repeated, but yet they are happening time and time again, the same mistakes, the same abuse, in the same places and others we don't get to hear about.
Who will tell on behalf of someone with no relatives, no friends or no callers?
Stories that we have all personally heard and seen in areas of care. We think, we wonder about options, if any!
Many too frightful to think or even consider.😱
Patience is a virtue, it's not always easy for anyone at times but it is a must, if you don't feel it , it cannot be taught, it's in you or it's not, no amount of money in the world will make it different and it doesn't.
Those who are lost in their memories, who gaze at us and are just not sure, who find the world a strange place, noises are intrusive, living a life they don't want, need us to help maintain their dignity and to care at all times, to remember, that they are where we may one day be!
We have to make it better, we have to hang on in there, we have to be kind, be caring, be as supportive but above all else remember to respect.
The person in front of you had a life and all the experiences good and bad, they had hopes and dreams, they didn't ask to lose their memory, they didn't expect to need someone else's help.
Life as it is, has tried to wipe the board with our older generation in many respects, they are treated as wasted human beings, if they are not working then they are seen as non productive, our governments are failing them at every step.
In other countries there is a greater respect for their elders, they remain the main stay of the family, not thrown away like wasted space.
All we hear on debates is the fact that people are living longer, we have a larger group of an older generation so there is a greater pressure on our health care etc, then make it better don't talk about them as if they shouldn't be here, it disgusts me.
Make what is provided better, make it work!
Everyone on those talkshows who talk about the elderly with negativity must remember they are all on the same journey and their but for the grace of God.... or whoever your God or essence may be...go any and everyone of us!
Wishing you all a lovely weekend ahead.
enjoy the weather,look after yourselves and stay safe.xx🙏🏻❤️🫂

23/05/2026

Hello guys👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻

Whose going to see this damage if they are not down on the sand seaward side???😱
I do hope you are able to enjoy a little of the good weather you are getting.🌞
I did mean to post these photos a couple of weeks ago when I was in the sea🌊.
There are about 12 different holes on the seaward side of the Ballyholme walkway.
Some of which are around the same area I mentioned before the sink hole appeared .😱
Doesn't look too good and I first saw them a few months back and nothing has changed except more appearing.
Surely it would stand to reason, that they will weaken the wall and eventually the walkway.
Take care and have a great day tomorrow.
❤️🙏🏻

22/05/2026

Well hello all👋🏻🤗
Well Phillip and I did manage to get away.🛫
Not without something going wrong, of course.
We were driving past the City Airport when I realised I hadn't picked up my phone 📱.
I missed the turn in for the Airport so had to drive all the way to the traffic 🚦 lights towards Dee street.
I drove up the hill and around the little roundabout, trying to get back to the lights on the dual carriageway! 🚦However a car was blocking me getting back down to the lights and an agitated taxi driver had his hand on his horn📯.
There was visibly nothing I could do and it only took a couple of minutes for the cars 🚗 blocking my access route.
So back again to Bangor, Maurice was waiting from me on the road 🛣️ and away we headed for a second run🫣.
I just couldn't believe it, my boarding passes were on the phone, my puck up at the other end so I had no choice, otherwise I would have left it.🤷🏻
So all good in the end.
It's amazing before I came away I was stressed to the Hilt, not sleeping until 2 and 3 am in the morning, palpitations, complete fatigue, although as always I never let it affect my teaching and my classes.
All settled now, who knew!
Of course I miss you all, you are and have been such a big part of my life for over 28 years now🤗.
I was listening to a topic on the radio today and it was quite frightening, it was about ' Burnout' we know that, the word is an overall term and we know that it can occur in almost all areas of life and for so many reasons but the effects one lady suffered due to ' Burnout' was frightening so make sure when any of you ever feel completely over whelmed with the stresses affecting your life, do take a little time out to recharge, to just 💬, breathe 🫁, and maybe where you can, reassess your situation, maybe change things around.
I have never been very good at looking after myself, I very rarely ever thought 🤔 of me.
My life has Always been about others and how I can help change their lives a little, be there for them, advise where I could, be where I was needed.
I had left my seat 💺on the plane 🛫to go to the loo and as I left the loo and approached the aisle this very tall young guy reached the front row and collapsed in front of me, he came to very quickly, but as usual off with me to the back of the plane 🛫 to get him some water, as all the staff were down the back, it's not until there is an incident you realise how long the plane is.
I gave him the water, told him to drink it, initially he felt sick but that passed and I suppose he couldn't understand when he came to why people were looking👀 at him, as the chap in the front row kindly offered him his seat when he came to.
Once he said he was feeling better, I left him with the onlookers.
As I say in my seat I was pleased I had been there to stop him completely hitting the floor and he went down softly in a curled position.
The staff came to thank me for helping him and I was happy to do so.
The weather is beautiful🌞 although today the sea was very rough 🌬️with strong angry waves🌊 and I was thrown up the beach 🫣by them a couple of times 😀 this morning!🌅
We have been getting in 3 times a day, but just twice today.🙏🏻
Still can't complain, just lucky to be here.
I hope you got the links to your Pilates classes and have been keeping up your good work😀.
Look after yourselves, take care, stay safe and remember a little time out to breathe🫁
Always breathing out for longer than you breath in, for relaxation purposes, of course.
Lots of love.xx🙏🏻❤️🫂

18/05/2026

Hi ladies ,👋🏻👋🏻
Links for classes below.💪🏻
Great class this morning,🤗 as I was leaving there were quite a few of you asking for the link to the classes I posted at COVID, for you to do at home while I am away.
So I am forwarding them to you and you should be able to see them on your phone, or you can visit
Caroline's fitness like it is, on you tube and you can get a bigger version of me😱.
Remember they are just as I did for you all at the time and I haven't changed the little intros I did, so you can just scroll through.
Lots of love and thank you for this morning.xx🫂❤️
I do hope I haven't re sent the same ones twice.🤔
https://youtu.be/RrD_wk4IV1Q?si=SX1knltESEqr0zVY

[18/05, 16:49] Caroline: https://youtu.be/qzV3M25trWY?si=T_sRQELB7ya82S5a

[18/05, 16:49] Caroline: https://youtu.be/RYetLP-wlxM?si=TXPwzOwbJcjk7IDj

https://youtu.be/5esM5DbWuC4?si=DkSLGVwzpK9U5hcf

https://youtu.be/RYetLP-wlxM?si=v-G16InH5585u-iZ

https://youtu.be/RYetLP-wlxM?si=v-G16InH5585u-iZ