Pilates: Creating the Body You Want - Softcover

Selby, Anna; Herdman, Alan; Kendal, Felicity

9781856751155: Pilates: Creating the Body You Want

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1856751155 ISBN 13: 9781856751155

Publisher: Gaia Books, 1999

The Pilates technique teaches you how to use your body correctly. This practical guide to Pilates presents a series of step-by-step exercise routines that are designed to ease aches, improve mobility, release tension, strengthen and tone your abdomen, lift your buttocks, and banish back ache. A warm-up routine is included to focus the mind and prepare the body. This is followed by three levels, each one working every part of your body. When you can perform each movement in a level comfortably, you move on to the next level. The book also provides a self assessment to help you identify your strengths and weaknesses and to see how you improve as you work through the routines in the book.

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About the Author:

Alan Herdman introduced Pilates to London in the early 1970's having learned the method in New York. He has set-up Pilates studios in London as well as around the world. As a teacher-trainer he has passed on his knowledge and expertise to many Pilates teachers. Anna Selby, an established writer who has been involved in many forms of dance and exercise, was the first to write about Pilates in the UK in 1985. Subsequently she has written many other books on exercise and health. She is now a freelance features writer for a variety of UK newspapers and magazines

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