Pilates Manual ebook

by Lynne Robinson

Lynne Robinson Exercise and Fitness English

Lynne Robinson is the world's top-selling pilates author. As well as her teaching work, she lectures at leading medical and sports conferences and appears regularly on national television and radio.

Lynne Robinson is the world's top-selling pilates author. Lynne has also presented seven bestselling Body Control videos with Firefly Entertainment. She is a director of the Body Control Pilates Association. Gordon trained in classical ballet at Rambert between 1970 and 1974. Gordon with another top UK pilates expert Lynne Robinson, created Body Control Pilates, the first teacher training courses for both mat and machine in London and abroad.

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Pilates body conditioning is today's fitness buzzword, and following the storming success of Lynne Robinson and Gordon Thomson's original 'Body Control: The Pilates Way', a variety of books have appeared - none as authoritative, practical, safe and geared towards solving your body's problems as this.

Pilates body conditioning is today's fitness buzzword, and following the storming success of Lynne Robinson and Gordon Thomson's original 'Body Control: The Pilates Way'. Pilates: Body in Motion, a book by Alycea Ungaro. Pilates Equipment and Tips. Proper breathing, rhythm and pacing are embedded norms of Pilates exercises.

Manufacturer: Macmillan Release date: 21 December 2000 ISBN-10 : 0333948890 ISBN-13: 9780333948897.

An encyclopaedic and authoritative return to Pilates' classical matwork programme. Lynne Robinson and Body Control Pilates have brought Joseph Pilates' original teachings to a vast international readership, creating exercise programmes that are famed for their clarity, effectiveness and safety. Building on the bestselling success of The Official Body Control Pilates Manual, The Complete Classic Pilates Method heralds Body Control's breakdown of the full matwork programme.

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Find nearly any book by Lynne Robinson. Get the best deal by comparing prices from over 100,000 booksellers. Perfect Body: The Pilates Way. by Lynne Robinson, Caroline Brien. ISBN 9780333907528 (978-0-333-90752-8) Hardcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd, 2002. Find signed collectible books: 'Perfect Body: The Pilates Way'.

Pilates body conditioning is today's fitness buzzword, and following the storming success of Lynne Robinson and Gordon Thomson's original Body Control: The .

Pilates body conditioning is today's fitness buzzword, and following the storming success of Lynne Robinson and Gordon Thomson's original Body Control: The Pilates. From back pains, posture problems to prevention of common sports injuries and training your children to use their bodies properly, this is the a one-stop reference.

A self-help manual focusing on back pain prevention and rehabilitation using the unique Pilates body conditioning system 3 in 5 of us will suffer from backache in our lives.

Chilele

I think this volume is several years old, but it still explains the principles of Pilates well. The authors value a common sense approach which means not starting an accelerated program until you are familiar with the basics. A section is devoted to showing how Pilates training can be valuable in other activities or sports. I wish there were accompanying DVDs because I would like to see a demonstration of some of the movements.

Silvermaster

Easy to follow. Pilates from my physical therapist and this book helped me come a long way towards back health after damage last year. Well written and well planned.

Mazuzahn

One of the best books I have ever found to own other than actual teaching manuals for instructors. This is in great color with excellent positions shown accompanied by the proper directions for execution. I purchased one for my daughter as well.

Onnell

If you want to make pilates, just read this book and make the exercises

Anazan

I bought this book again since I loaned out my last copy. I have given it as a gift to all my family. It is a wonderfully complete exercise guide for Pilates, and one I keep as a reference book.

Jockahougu

very concise and perfect for the beginner.

Oppebro

I seen the Pilates book at a friends place and knew that I wanted the book. I placed the order for she would not let me borrow her copy of the book.

Pilates, like yoga, is best studied with an instructor, because the benefits from the exercise are derived no in their execution, but in the attempt. Alignment is critical, and for beginners, "what feels right" may not be right, because they are unlearning a life time of incorrect posture. However, this book is close as one can get to a trained instructor. It teaches the reader how to identify current posture patterns. It offers recommendations for series of exercises to rectify skeletal and muscular alignment based on the posture assessment. It also includes series of exercises based on work style (e.g. if you stand much on the job, this set will help you the most; is you sit for prolonged periods of times then try another set, exercises for those who use a key board all day, ect.). It also provides series of exercises for particular people who pursue athletic activities top address the imbalances that the repetition of these activities might pose to the body's structure (e.g. series for cyclists, swimmers, hikers, runners, volleyball players, ect.). And it provides combinations of exercises to address particular physical ailments and areas that people want to strengthen (e.g. sore backs, cramped feet, weak arms, sore necks, stomachs, ect.).

The exercises recommended are all based on the floor and require no equipment, aside form a matt (for which a thick blanket can substitute). Each exercise is rated according to a degree of difficulty by colors, and modifications are suggested for more challenging poses, so that a beginner can work up to the more challenging version with regular practice. The instructions pay close attention to proper alignment in the pose, and provide clear instructions with lots of pictures so that the exercise beginner can easily comprehend. The exercises are simple to understand, but since the work with the body, they will always be challenging when executed properly with full effort. The introduction offers a background of pilates.

This excellence of the book in its thoroughness to detail and variety of solutions for every physical imbalance a body might experience, commend it to a class of excellence all of its own. I can not recommend it highly enough.