Customer Reviews

The Anatomy of Pilates

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I'm very disappointed of this book! The drawings don't distinguish between muscle functions, every muscle somewhat involved in the movement is highlighted without further explanation, whether it's contracting or lengthening. With lists like that the question arises what the criteria of selection of a certain muscle group for an exercise was? Hip flexors not highlighted in Teaser? Ahem.

I've only briefly looked at the chapters and can already say that there are too many statements for my taste that are so general, that they are plain wrong: "Stabilizers are made up of slow-twitch fibres..."

This book is not worth the money and seems to be thrown together at times.

Although this book is written for the health professional, it is a fantastic resource for the Pilates beginner as well. The text is well organized, thorough, clear and easy to understand. The illustrations of how to do the individual exercises are some of the most helpful I have seen in an exercise book.

Love this book! Excellent resource guide for new and experienced Pilates teachers. The chapter (2) on Posture and Movement assessment is worth the price of the book alone. I have purchased more expensive Pilates books that were not nearly as valuable to me. Highly recommend!!

This is a fabulous book! If you ever wanted to know which exercises target specific muscles, this would be the book to get. I found the section on posture and movement assessment to be very beneficial, because it pinpoints which classical pilates exercises I can use to achieve the look I want. The checkpoints within each exercise help me to remember to do the movement correctly. Highly recommended!

As a Pilates professional I found this book lacking. If you have received even moderately good teacher training in the Pilates method, you already know this information. It is a very basic guide to the original mat exercises, a review of the Pilates principles and some very broad discussion of muscle activation, breath and postural faults. There are much more comprehensive books out there.

This is a must for any Pilates' instructors. Easy to read and very important to understand the anatomy of the body. I find it very helpful in sharpening my instructor tools.

This book is great. I have been teaching for 6 years and when I first started there were no anatomy books for Pilates. The book by PMI is a joke! This book is awesome. I want more! There are also some yoga anatomy books out there that are helpful as well. Thanks for writing this. More is needed in the field.

An excellent book for students who are taking pilates classes or want to teach pilates.

This is a great book for the Anatomy of Pilates. It has very detail illustration and explanation!

this is a really great book!
i've learned Pilates in a few places
but this really showes what r u working on
especially- the muscles