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

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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.