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What Can Pilates Bring To Your Life?

The goal of Pilates is to be in total control of your body as you move and to balance your muscles by targeting and strengthening the ones you don’t usually use in your day-to-day life that would benefit from being stronger. This requires beginning from your central core muscles and using the stability these muscles provide to smoothly control your arms, legs and other extremities.

This is no easy feat, which is what makes Pilates a great way to build strength and stamina. Pilates is for everybody, regardless of gender, age, race, size, ability or current fitness level.

The Pilates Method, which includes mat and specialised equipment, is made up of over 600 exercises and variations.

“There’s something for everyone, whether you have a sedentary lifestyle, are a weekend warrior, are pregnant, are undergoing rehab, have anxiety, or if you’re a professional athlete,” said Core Defined Pilates and Fitness Studio Instructor Unica Estabillo.

“Studies have shown that Pilates improves quality of life by having a positive effect on depression and pain, most notably decreasing back pain.” Pilates aligns your entire body’s overall structure and supports its joints. “What appears to look simple can be deceptively challenging and incredibly effective when done correctly with good form,” said Unica. The optimal strength gained from consistent Pilates practice is nonrigid, balancing strength with mobility and flexibility. It helps you move and breathe through your daily activities with more freedom and power and less pain. At Core Defined Pilates, all classes are taught by qualified instructors who will ensure you follow your individual program whether in a one-on-one or in their group “All Levels” class. This ensures you perform all exercises correctly, safely and achieve the best results. “We structure all our classes to provide you with flexibility and accessibility, whilst keeping class sizes small to ensure we provide personalised movements and maintain the highest quality standards,” said Unica.

Core Defined Pilates offers classes taught by qualified instructors who will ensure you follow your individual program. Photo supplied Jen Hughes, Belinda Potts and Megan Parker of Social, Fresh & Local at Walkerston. Photo credit: Sam Gillespie

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Get to know some of the staff members bringing you delicious coffee, fresh food and service with a smile at Social Fresh & Local.

BELINDA POTTS – OWNER

Go-to coffee order? Caramel latte

What do you like to do while sipping

your coffee? “I love to be at the beach just relaxing and watching the world go by.”

Go-to Social Fresh & Local food order?

Eggs Benedict – “Apparently, we’re getting well known for eggs benny, so I’ve heard.” Favourite Mackay beach? Town Beach Belinda is in her fourth year of managing Social Fresh & Local and is amazed at how much it’s grown. Born in WA, Belinda has been in Mackay for almost 30 years and draws on years of hospitality experience as a chef and barista. “The community is absolutely amazing,” she said. “I love hospitality, I love people, I love giving that great service.” Belinda and her team are passionate about delivering delicious coffee and excellent customer service to the Walkerston community. “All the staff, they thrive on us being busy, they thrive on watching the place grow,” she said. “We’re happy people, we’re kind people and we just want to provide the best we can for the region.”

JEN HUGHES – CHEF

Go-to coffee order? Vanilla flat white

What do you like to do while sipping

your coffee? “Usually cooking. Experimenting.”

Go-to Social Fresh & Local food order?

Eggs Benedict with mushrooms and spinach Favourite Mackay beach? Cape Hillsborough Jen has been a chef for most of her life and has worked at Social Fresh & Local since January, becoming an invaluable asset to the team.

“I just love food,” she said. “The rush of service day and the sense of accomplishment at the end of the day. It’s always good fun, the customers are always happy. It’s a nice, fun environment.”

Renowned for their quality products and friendly, personalised service, P Comino & Sons has been faithfully serving the Mackay region for the past 90 years. One of the founding business pioneers in Mackay City, the first business was opened by newly migrated Greek, Peter Comino back in 1906.

Initially the family worked in hospitality, opening the Sydney Oyster Saloon in Sydney Street. After a cyclone hit Mackay in 1918, the restaurant needed a renovation, so the Comino family decided to rebrand and re-open as Britannia Café.

In the early 1930’s the business took a different and now very familiar path, opening Comino Drapers on 14 Sydney Street. This business would soon become the iconic P Comino and Sons we love and hold dear today. A family business at heart, Peter Comino and his wife Vasiliki had 10 children, many of whom have worked at the family businesses over the years. Their son Jim managed the store for many years, and his brother Cyril opened Comino’s Camping a few doors up on Sydney Street. In 1979 Cyril took over management of P Comino & Sons, combining some items from his nearby camping store. When he retired in 1986, Cyril handed the reins over to his daughter Vassie, who left her profession as a pharmacist to work in the family business. Vassie has now been managing the business for over 36 years. Despite remaining a profitable and popular retail destination that has successfully traversed the ages, P Comino & Sons holds dear to its past and part of its charm is the old-world feel customers experience as they enter the store. The cash register, which was converted to decimal currency in 1966, still sits on the long wooden counters which have stood in store since 1932.

In addition, some of the glass counters and display cabinets originally came from Britannia Café. The only item of technology in the store is an EFTPOS machine and invoices are handwritten.

Priding itself on operating a good old-fashioned business that has withstood the tests of time and technological advancement, P Comino & Sons will remain how it is, like a museum for the modern age, creating a shopping experience that can no longer be replicated.