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A Pilates' Primer : The Millennium Edition

A Pilates' Primer : The Millennium Edition Lowest new price: $9.88
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Author: Joseph Pilates

This Millenium Edition includes the only two published works of Joseph Pilates. Newly copyrighted, edited and revised, this book makes available in one volume all of his early Twentieth Century philosophies, principles, and theories about health and fitness, as well as the exercises, poses, and instructions fundamental to his exciting fitness program. You will also learn every single one of his original 34 mat exercises taught to his own students. Living testimony to the validity of his own teachings, Joseph Pilates shares in these writings his fundamental tenets of posture, body mechanics, correct breathing, spinal flexibility, physical education, and his law of natural exercises.

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Ellie Herman's Pilates Reformer, Second Edition

Ellie Herman's Pilates Reformer, Second Edition Lowest new price: $69.95
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Author: Ellie Herman

Finally a complete manual for the Universal Pilates Reformer by San Francisco Pilates expert Ellie Herman. This guide is meant for Pilates trainers and fitness professionals as well as for Pilates aficianados who want a deeper understanding for their own practice. This book takes you through classic Pilates Reformer repertoire as well as introducing original exercises developed by Ellie Herman and her instructors over the last fifteen years. Included in this book are: step by step photo sequences, detailed descriptions of over 100 Reformer exercises, proper breathing and specific alignment cues, benefits and contraindications, rehabilitation applications and special tips and imagery.

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Pilates for Riders: Align Your Spine and Control Your Core for a Perfect Position

Pilates for Riders: Align Your Spine and Control Your Core for a Perfect Position Lowest new price: $20.08
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Author: Lindsay Wilcox-Reid

Whether employed to reduce posture related back pain, or improve riding performance in competition, these Pilates exercises will help riders attain such goals. Using a holistic approach to increase balance, effectiveness, and elegance as a rider, the techniques in this book concentrate on the dynamics between trainer, rider, and horse. The training tips are ideal for those who ride for pleasure and those who ride competitively. Methods such as visualization are combined with clear photographs and illustrations to help riders analyze their seated position to improve spinal alignment and increase core strength in order to achieve realistic performance goals.

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Ellie Herman's Pilates Props Workbook: Illustrated Step-by-Step Guide

Ellie Herman's Pilates Props Workbook: Illustrated Step-by-Step Guide Lowest new price: $7.30
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Author: Ellie Herman

AMPLIFY YOUR PILATES WORKOUT USING PROPS
Pilates gets even better when paired with these simple accessories. Pilates expert Ellie Herman shows how to intensify and enhance your matwork routine:

•The elastic exercise band increases resistance
•The ethafoam roller creates stability challenges
•The Magic Circle gives a great inner thigh workout

Each movement is explained with clear captions and easy-to-follow photo sequences. Special programs for strains, injuries and chronic problems are also featured. In addition to strengthening and toning your body, Pilates with props helps you:

•Build balance
•Release tension
•Alleviate pain
•Rehabilitate injuries

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Return to Life

Return to Life Lowest new price: $15.26
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Author: Joseph H. Pilates

RETURN TO LIFE is the original Pilates exercise book written by the creator and visionary of the Pilates method of exercise, Joseph H. Pilates. This book reviews the conceptual basis and philosophy of the Pilates method or ‘Contrology’ and the original matwork exercises Mr. Pilates taught in the studio on 8th Avenue and 55th Street in New York City. The model featured in this book is Mr. Pilates himself at the age of 60.

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Pilates Expanded Matwork & Props Photo Encyclopedia

Pilates Expanded Matwork & Props Photo Encyclopedia Lowest new price: $22.88
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Author: Eme Cole

The Pilates Expanded Photo Encyclopedias are designed for Pilates instructors and experienced Pilates enthusiasts who wish to expand their repertoire of Pilates inspired exercises and variations. They are comprised of a multitude of movements for a variety of designated apparatus’ with basic cuing plus instructive photos to appease the visual learner. This photo encyclopedia is the largest collection of exercises available for the Matwork as well as 20 different props, including both traditional and progressive movements. The book totals 238 pages, 532 exercises, and 1,032 color photos. For more information, visit www.PilatesExpanded.com

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Your Ultimate Pilates Body® Challenge: At the Gym, on the Mat, and on the Move

Your Ultimate Pilates Body® Challenge: At the Gym, on the Mat, and on the Move Lowest new price: $5.72
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Author: Brooke Siler

In this remarkable new program, Pilates instructor Brooke Siler once again revolutionizes the world of Pilates, reinventing how and where Pilates is performed, to take your fitness to a whole new level. Elegantly designed and beautifully illustrated, Your Ultimate Pilates Body Challenge takes a fresh approach to Pilates, challenging readers to rethink the way they move and to incorporate Pilates-conscious movements into every aspect of life:

At the Gym: Siler takes you through a fun, rapid-fire circuit of machines that gets and keeps you in your cardio target zone. For the first time ever, you will learn how to use powerful Pilates techniques to maximize your workouts on standard gym equipment (StairMaster, treadmill, stationary bike, etc.).

At Home: Siler steps up the at-home basics by applying Pilates’ principles to work with weights, bands, and non-accoutrement-based exercises.

On the Mat: As so many readers and clients have requested, Siler has created four brand-new mat routines specifically to target abs, lower body, posture, and flexibility, and designed to take experienced practitioners and beginners alike to new levels of body-sculpted accomplishment.

Sports: Siler offers insight into secrets of the world’s best athletes, explaining how to move with Pilates form in individual and team sports. With core strength created in Pilates you can hit better golf shots, ski with less fatigue than ever before, and bring more power to your tennis game.

Everyday Life: Using her trademark “Invisible Workout,” Siler shows you how incorporating Pilates-based awareness and movements into everyday activities—such as restocking the pantry, working at the computer, climbing stairs, or picking up the baby—can tone and strengthen your body.

You will be amazed at how much better you feel when your carriage, breathing, posture, and movements are done Pilates-style. This dynamic book shows how Pilates can actually be the basis for total-body transformation—by simply challenging you to get the absolute most out of everything you already do.

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Pilates For Dummies

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Author: Ellie Herman

Once the secret fitness weapon of professional dancers, athletes, and movie stars, Pilates is sweeping the country with a vengeance. And if even half of what its many fans claim is true, then it’s easy to see why. Combining elements of yoga, dance, gymnastics, and boxing, along with many original movements, Pilates exercises build muscle tone, improve flexibility and balance, lengthen the spine, increase body awareness, and repair past injuries. Most people who’ve done it, even for a short time, say they feel stronger and more energized, centered and physically confident than ever before. They also like having the flat tummies, tight buns, and long lean thighs of a dancer.

Pilates For Dummies lets you get on board with the Pilates method , without the high cost of private instruction. Packed with step-by-step exercises, photos, and illustrations, it helps you develop your own Pilates fitness program to do at home or in the gym. Top Pilates trainer Ellie Herman shows you how to use eight basic Pi lates principles to get the most out of your mat-based routines and:

  • Look and feel better than ever
  • Get stronger, more flexible, in control and less prone to injury
  • Target and tone problem areas
  • Get movie star abs, buns, thighs and arms
  • Repair chronic stress and sports injuries

Calmly, clearly, and with quirky good humor, Ellie explores the origins and basic philosophy of the Pilates method, and helps you set realistic fitness goals and custom-tailor a program. She also covers:

  • Basic, intermediate , and advanced mat exercises
  • Using Pilates exercise equipment and accessories
  • Targeting specific areas including the stomach, back, thighs, and chest
  • Pilates for the pregnant and recently pregnant body
  • Using Pilates to heal injuries, reform posture
  • Ten simple ways to incorporate Pilates into your everyday life
  • Combining Pilates with other forms of exercise, including yoga, swimming, aerobics, and more

Why let the rich and famous have all the fun? Your complete, friendly, step-by-step guide, Pilates For Dummies shows how Pilates can offer a fitness program for the rest of us.

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Pilates REFORMER Training Manual (Official International Training Manual

Pilates REFORMER Training Manual (Official International Training Manual Lowest new price: $21.26
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Author: Melinda Bryan

FOR DETAILED MOST UP TO DATE PILATES INSTRUCTION GET THE OFFICIAL MANUALS OF THE PILATES STUDIO® OF LOS ANGELES. Designed for everyone with Pictures to accompany every exercise. For the first time Since 1992, these easy to follow industry secret training manuals, previously available only to a selective few, have now been released to the world. USED BY CERTIFIED PILATES EXPERTS AS THE UNIVERSAL OFFICIAL PILATES TRAINING MANUALS WORLDWIDE. The REFORMER PILATES manual, is 1 of the series of 6 Pilates Manuals, authored by MELINDA BRYAN, Founder and Director of Performing Arts Physical Therapy & The Pilates Studio® of Los Angeles Since 1992. All 6 manuals have been recently revised to meet today s standards, and include some hard to find and rarely taught Pilates routines. These OFFICIAL MANUALS are based on the Original Pilates Teacher Certification Program developed by The Pilates Studio since 1992. The program was offered in California EXCLUSIVELY for years at The Pilates Studio of Los Angeles under the direction of Melinda Bryan. The Pilates Studio of LA, known as the very first Official Pilates Certification Center on the West Coast of the United States, is one of only two Original licensing centers in the world. As the former co-owner of the once federally registered trademark PILATES, almost twenty years ago, The Pilates Studio of LA played a vital role in bringing Pilates exercise into the public eye as one of the most effective fitness methods of our generation. Almost 2 decades have passed!... Long gone are the days when the BEST Pilates available were limited to the West Coast or the East Coast. The world has evolved and the time has come to bring Pilates to a whole new generation. Melinda with over 20 years of experience as one of the world's leading Principal Master Pilates Teacher Trainers, and her extensive Physical Therapy expertise, has applied current basic medical information to the method while at the same time maintaining all of the original principles and purity of the method. Book Size 8.5 W x 11 H

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Pilates for Hip and Knee Syndromes and Arthroplasties With Web Resource

Pilates for Hip and Knee Syndromes and Arthroplasties With Web Resource Lowest new price: $29.99
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Author: Beth Kaplanek
Brand: Human Kinetics

As hip and knee conditions continue to become more prevalent, so does the demand for a rapid and complete return to function in these lower-extremity joints. Pilates for Hip and Knee Syndromes and Arthroplasties provides foundational guidelines and protocols—with specific modifications—for the use of Pilates in increasing core strength, balance, and flexibility and restoring function and range of motion with pre- and postoperative knee and hip syndromes and arthroplasties. Written for Pilates instructors, manual therapists, personal trainers, and physicians, this text introduces Pilates as a safe fitness and rehabilitation tool for individuals with knee or hip conditions.

Developed over 90 years ago by Joseph H. Pilates, the Pilates method is a unique system of stretching and strengthening exercises that have been shown to tone muscles and improve posture, flexibility, range of motion, and balance. Low impact and completely adaptable according to specific syndromes or fitness level, Pilates exercises are well suited for use in pre- and postoperative exercise regimens, and Pilates mat exercises can be easily incorporated into home programs.

Pilates for Hip and Knee Syndromes and Arthroplasties begins with a review of the anatomy of the hip and knee, a discussion of the most common conditions, and an overview of nonoperative and operative treatments. Building this background information will help readers gain a better understanding of why certain exercises are applied at various points in the rehabilitation time line.

The next portion of the text is dedicated to specific Pilates techniques and mat exercises and includes baseline recommendations for range of motion and both pre- and postoperative modifications for the knee and hip. Reference tables outline classical Pilates mat exercises and place them in specific rehabilitation time lines from six weeks to three months, three months to six months, and beyond six months postoperative. More than 600 photos clearly demonstrate the exercises and feature detailed instructions for correct execution of the techniques. To assist with clients who have never performed Pilates exercises or are in the very early stages after surgery, pre-Pilates exercises are also presented to help build core strength and range of motion. Case scenarios and sample Pilates mat programs provide additional guidelines on the correct application of the exercises, while an exercise finder located in the front of the text quickly directs readers to the appropriate exercises for each postop time line.

As a bonus, a Web resource included with the text provides fully trained Pilates instructors with guidelines on using the Pilates equipment to develop programs for clients with hip or knee conditions. Instructors will learn what equipment is appropriate to incorporate at the optimal time for rehabilitation. In addition, a resource finder is included to assist readers in finding a qualified Pilates training program and a qualified Pilates instructor.

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  • led instructions for correct execution of the techniques. To assist with clients who have never performed Pilates exercises or are in the very early stages after surgery, pre-Pilates exercises are also presented to help build core strength & range of motion. Case scenarios & sample Pilates mat programs provide additional guidelines on the correct application of the exercises, while an exercise finder located in the front of the text quickly directs readers to the appropriate exercises for each p
  • ostop time line.As a bonus, a web resource included with the text provides fully trained Pilates instructors with guidelines on using the Pilates equipment to develop programs for clients with hip or knee conditions. Instructors will learn what equipment is appropriate to incorporate at the optimal time for rehabilitation. In addition, a resource finder is included to assist readers in finding a qualified Pilates training program & a qualified Pilates instructor.author: Kaplanek, Beth Pages: 384

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