Blend Reformer Pilates

If you're staying at one of the caravan parks around Leicester and fancy an early morning workout without leaving the East Midlands, Blend Reformer Pilates is worth tracking down. It's a reformer pilates studio - the kind of place where you're lying on a machine that looks like it belongs in a 1950s torture chamber, except it actually works your core properly. Classes are small group sessions, so there's proper attention from instructors rather than being lost in a 50-person spin class.

It's really for people who take their fitness seriously, or those who've discovered pilates and want to progress beyond YouTube videos in the caravan. The reformer apparatus gives you resistance training that bodyweight pilates can't match, and the moves are surprisingly tough - don't go in thinking it'll be gentle just because you're not doing burpees. Allow an hour for a full class.

Given that Green Acres Caravan Park sits just 1.3 miles away, this could slot nicely into a holiday where you want to keep moving without spending hours at a leisure centre. Book ahead - reformer studios operate on limited class schedules and spaces fill up. Check their website or ring ahead for current times and whether you need to book in advance. It's not a tourist attraction in the traditional sense, but if you're a regular exerciser stuck in a caravan for a week, it solves the real problem of where to actually train.