Pilates: Realize Your Potential and Discover Grace, Power and Supple Movement with Pilates (A FlowMotion Book) [Paperback]

Suzanne Scott (Introduction)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 28, 2002

Pilates is the most popular exercise system going--just try it and you'll know why! It works out the entire body, keeping you limber and strong everywhere. The principles of the system are beautifully outlined here, with details on posture, breathing, and other techniques you need to train safely. Each exercise has so many benefits: even the simple pussy cat and ankle stretch increases flexibility and fortifies the heart, lungs, thymus, and thyroid gland, too. Bonus: basic remedial exercises to fix up what's ailing you!

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FlowmotionT is a breakthrough technique, the newest, greatest way of teaching a sport, fitness routine, dance, or any kind of physical activity! Unless you've got a private teacher standing right with you, it just doesn't get any better than these revolutionary guides. Picture this: strobe-like, wide-format photographs-created by cutting-edge digital technology-that fluidly capture entire movement sequences with key stages highlighted. It's as if you were watching a video. Underneath the pictures, captions provide even more directions. There's nothing else like it anywhere!

Practice Pilates to increase your strength, flexibility, and coordination.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Sterling (April 28, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806988738
• ISBN-13: 978-0806988733
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.8 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,309,606 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great as far as Pilates Books Go, but Buy a Video, July 15, 2003

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This review is from: Pilates: Realize Your Potential and Discover Grace, Power and Supple Movement with Pilates (A FlowMotion Book) (Paperback)

It was this book which I saw a bookstore and bought online at Amazon.com that got my wife and I hooked on Pilates. I (a male) was at first apprehensive that some of my friends might find out that I was doing Pilates. But as I saw my wife with this book struggling through the exercises, I thought "Wow! That looks hard. I don't know if I could do that." I'm a guy who's up for a challenge, so I began doing them with her. Then watching us, my parents got hooked. Instead of getting a book, however, they bought the Mari Windsor video series. If it wasn't for me knowing about and now working with the videos, I would give this book 5 stars. It very clearly, in full color pictures and very easy-to-read language demonstrates how to do Pilates. I think it actually has helped me to perform the exercises on the video more correctly. But since I now know just how good the videos are I have to drop the book to 4 stars since it just can't compete with its multimedia rival.

And now my friends who were making fun of me are actually working out with me. Just last night my living room was full of people (male and female) "doing Pilates."

In conclusion, I would recommend that you try the Winsor Pilates videos (the only other that I have seen is Pilates for Dummies and it is pretty bad), and then if you still need more help mastering the techniques this book is a good aid.