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by Joan Breibart (Author) "Today there are thousands of certified Pilates instructors in private studios, health clubs, physical therapy offices, hospitals, YMCAs, universities, dance studios, and spas-everywhere that people..." (more)
Key Phrases: standing foundation, twist your spine, neutral spine position, Standing Pilates, Tall Technique Imagine, Modifications Touch (more...)

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How to perform all of the classic Pilates postures just about anywhere
Joseph Pilates's revolutionary methods for strengthening, toning, and even lengthening the body using modified yoga postures have become hugely popular all around the world. Now, celebrated Pilates expert Joan Breibart shows readers step by step how to perform Pilates's classic postures while standing or sitting down. Breibart has transformed the classics Pilates floor exercises into a new workout that frees readers to perform Pilates postures in places where they don't have the room, floor space, mats, or special equipment needed for conventional Pilates exercises. Fully illustrated throughout with black-and-white photos, Standing Pilates show readers how to use their own body weight to get faster and more lasting results.

Joan Breibart (New York, NY) is one of the original leaders of the Pilates movement; in 1991, she founded the Institute for the Pilates Methods, now called Pilates Physicalmind Institute, the first membership organization for Pilates professionals. Her training programs are used worldwide to certify professionals.

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Perform Pilates postures just about anywhere— and get faster results!

Joseph Pilates's revolutionary methods of strengthening, toning, and even lengthening the body have become hugely popular all around the world. Now, in Standing Pilates, celebrated Pilates expert Joan Breibart takes Pilates off the floor, showing you step by step how to perform classic postures while standing or sitting.

Breibart, the creator of the first Pilates exercise video, has transformed traditional Pilates floor exercises into a new workout that frees you to perform postures any time, anywhere, without mats, balls, or workout gear. This groundbreaking new method uses your own body weight to help you achieve faster, longer-lasting results. You get clear instruction on how to increase your focus, develop proper form, and strengthen and tone your body more easily and efficiently. Plus, Breibart gives you valuable tips on improving your technique, making modifications to the postures, and varying each exercise to take things up a notch. No matter your current fitness level, Standing Pilates is the revolutionary new way to reshape your body and reach your fitness goals in less time. This exciting new book:

Features black-and-white photographs throughout that fully illustrate each exercise
Explains how to exercise smarter to get the body you want
Provides fundamentals and foundations for retraining your brain to move your body correctly to improve your balance and form
Presents testimonials from fitness professionals on the benefits of Standing Pilates
Includes up-to-date contact lists for certified Pilates instructors, those also certified in Standing Pilates, and Pilates Certifying Studios

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Product Details

Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (December 13, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0471566551
ISBN-13: 978-0471566557
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

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Today there are thousands of certified Pilates instructors in private studios, health clubs, physical therapy offices, hospitals, YMCAs, universities, dance studios, and spas-everywhere that people gather to gain better bodies. Read the first page

Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
standing foundation, twist your spine, neutral spine position, plank position, smart bodies, sitting bones, hinge forward, knee fold, flexed foot, standing leg, upper spine, standing exercises

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Standing Pilates, Tall Technique Imagine, Modifications Touch, New York, Variations Close

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Rhode Island (The Bilingual Library of the United States of America) (Spanish Edition) by Jennifer Way in Back Matter
Silver City (Gunsmoke) by Bradford Scott in Back Matter
Mexico City (World Cities Series) by Peter M. Ward in Back Matter
Anatomy of Pilates by PhysicalMind Institute in Front Matter
Total Fitness in 30 Minutes a Week: Total Fitness in 30 Minutes a Week by Gross in Back Matter

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2.0 out of 5 stars A Disappointment, January 19, 2005

By	Poetry Lover (Portland OR) - See all my reviews

I am fairly fit and a new convert to Pilates. I bought this book largely on the quality of the reviews and on its do-it-anywhere marketing. Ah, good, I thought. Maybe ways to apply some of the Pilates strengthening principles to standing at the photocopier or in line, or doing the dishes.

The book offers only limited thoughts along these lines at the end, where much last third or so of the book is devoted primarily to lists of practitioners (either out of date or soon to be).

The exercises in this book, especially the recommendations for intermediate and more advanced variations, are about as "do it anywhere" as that of an intermediate vinyasa yoga class, and as a whole constitute a workout that any serious practioner would want to perform in a gym-like setting. In fact, the author suggests you should try to do these exercises around mirrors (don't have a lot of those in my office); she also suggests you can do these things anywhere but helpfully adds that you should to try to avoid knocking into others as you do.

Even accepting that, the book's production is disappointing as well. It is virtually impossible to read and teach yourself the complex inhalation/exhalation and movement patterns while actually performing them. (I don't know why producers of these books don't bother to put a spiral binding on them so that at least it stays flat.) To teach yourself many of the positions while reading requires that the book be just far enough away from your body--especially with something holding the pages flat--as to be barely legible, creating a lot of interruption and frustration. There are simply not enough photographs, which are themselves often hard to "read," and many of the instructions and certain parts of the pre-exercise text seem to have certain logical gaps that make the text harder to follow than it could be.

All of the principles are for me incredibly compelling and worthwhile, and overlap beautifully with yoga. But this should be a well-produced DVD, and not a book. And other than the heightened awareness of posture that mat Pilates naturally creates, I found little other than a short discussion about seated posture that actually merits the "Wherever You Are" slant.

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2.0 out of 5 stars too hard to follow, May 5, 2005

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The instuctions were simply too complicated and hard to follow, you really NEED an instructor to do this kind of exercise, which explains why about 1/2 the book is a list of studios and teachers. I did not find this book helpful, I am very sorry to say.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A Nice Addition to the Pilates Repertoire, August 11, 2005

By	NoVaGymGuy (Falls Church, VA United States) - See all my reviews

I'm giving the book a thumbs up more because I like the Standing Pilates work than because the book is all that great. (In general, I'd rather watch a DVD to learn new exercises, but so far there isn't a decent DVD for Standing Pilates.) Nevertheless, it is well illustrated with numerous photographs that help explain the exercises. If possible, take a Standing Pilates class, then use the book as a reference and reminder of how to do the exercises.

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