Ask a man why he's never tried reformer Pilates and the answer is rarely "I don't think it would work." It's usually some version of "it's not for me": a perception problem, not a fitness problem.
That perception is built from decades of marketing aimed almost exclusively at women, class names that emphasise flexibility over strength, and studios where a first-time male visitor genuinely is an outlier. None of that reflects what reformer training actually does: build serious core and hip strength, correct imbalances that show up in every other sport, and accelerate recovery between heavy lifting sessions.
The studios changing this fastest are the ones treating positioning as seriously as programming: different photography, different class names, a men's-specific entry point, while keeping the training itself exactly as effective.