The approach to exercise and bodywork in this book combines both the Pilates Method and the Alexander Technique. The exercise program aims to make the reader re-examine the way in which the body is used and explore pathways from the mind to the body.

The Mind Body Workout: With Pilates and the Alexander Technique

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Robinson, Lynne

Fisher, Helge

Exercise & Fitness

Pan/Macmillan

This text presents a whole new range of exercises to get you fit and keep you supple, as well as safely working to remedy your body's problems.

Pilates: The Way Forward

Thomson, Gordon

Pan Books, Ltd.

Pregnancy should be a wonderful, enriching experience, but it`s natural to have concerns about the ways it affects your body, moods and diet. This book enables you to forget those worries and focus on enjoying the experience. For those planning to conceive, a programme to strengthen the pelvic floor and deep abdominals combined with a prenatal diet plan puts you in great shape to cope with the next nine months. In the first trimester, advice focuses on coping with morning sickness and relaxation. In the second trimester, exercise can be introduced, and the book explores how your body adapts to the baby`s demands and gives tips on boosting your energy. Exercises for the third trimester help you overcome discomfort and prepare for birth. Get back into shape with postnatal exercise (including very gentle exercise after caesarean deliveries) and follow the tips to aid breastfeeding. Body Control Pilates, with its emphasis on core stability and safety, is ideally suited to make the most of this special time.

The Body Control Pilates Pregnancy Book: Optimum Health & Fitness for Every Stage of Your Pregnancy

Knox, Jacqueline

Women's Health

This is a guide to using the Body Control Pilates method for a safe and effective workout at the gym. This book shows how to use your body correctly, how to use your muscles for toning and how balanced workouts will re-educate your body's alignment for an impact on your physique. The benefits of using Pilates are well documented, from remedying back and joint pain, lengthening and strengthing the body, to improving your sex life! The book covers low-impact aerobics, cardiovascular workouts, and machine-based or free weights, showing how subtle Pilates-based changes to your technique can provide lasting results for years to come.

Pilates Gym: The Balanced Workout

Convy, Gerry

A self-help manual focusing on back pain prevention and rehabilitation using the unique Pilates body conditioning system 3 in 5 of us will suffer from backache in our lives. In order to mitigate against the worst-case scenario, use Pilates to strengthen your back and also the supporting muscles so that it doesn`t take all the strain. Pilates has a strong reputation in tackling back problems and many doctors, osteopaths and physiotherapists are already endorsing its unique quality to exercise deeply but gently and to rebalance the posture (many are opening Pilates centres in their surgeries).
The Back Book is a one-stop reference guide, explaining how the back works, why backache occurs, the different types of back pain, when to seek professional help, lifestyle tips for prevention and exercises to promote flexibility and hold the correct posture. For those already suffering, a special remedial programme of exercises is designed to restore mobility. With brand new exercises and the expertise of Paul Massey, Chief Physiotherapist to Britain`s Olympic Swimming team, leading Pilates practitioner Lynne Robinson can help you bypass or overcome this most common of agonies.

Body Control Pilates Back Book: A Training Program for the Prevention & Management of Back Pain

MACMILLAN PUB. LTD.

Perfect Body is a truly holistic and definitive guide to looking good - top to toe, inside and out, mind and body. Built up of chapters that focus on a specific part of the body - from the face down to the feet - it combines classic and new Body Control Pilates exercises with beauty advice, health information and nutritional guidance to tackle problem areas and help enhance favourite features.
As well as teaching you exactly how the Body Control Pilates system works to strengthen, tone and condition the body from within, the book includes simple skincare, aromatherapy, reflexology and massage techniques, giving it a unique approach that fits easily into a modern lifestyle. The Perfect Body is crammed with inspirational tips and proven techniques from leading health and beauty experts.
Full-colour, with all-new photography, `Perfect Body` takes Body Control Pilates to a new level and incorporates its unique benefits directly into your life for maximum impact.

Perfect Body the Pilates Way: Complete Plan for Top to Toe Transformation

Brien, Caroline

This guide's main focus is on exercises to do before, during, and after your journey. These mini-workouts are designed to stretch out tight muscles, mobilize joints, relax parts of the body prone to tension, improve circulation, and keep the back supple and strong. Additionally, this book gives advice on the types of food and drink you will travel on best, how to prevent deep-vein thrombosis, medication that might put you at risk on long journeys, and countering jet lag.

The Body Control Pilates Pocket Traveller

Massey, Paul

Macmillan, UK

Lynne Robinson has brought Joseph Pilates' teachings to modern exercisers in her thirteen previous books - producing clear and accessible exercise bestsellers with a reputation for safe exercise that really works. Now, with highly-respected yoga teacher Howard Napper, two of the world's most effective exercise movements come together to inspire one another. Conceived in response to frequent questions about whether Pilates and yoga are compatible, this manual highlights how they are grounded in a similar awareness of the body. Forty exercises demonstrate common ground wherever possible; there are also areas where a choice is put in your hands - part of the concept of intelligent exercise. With programmes to energize, relax and lengthen the body, this book heralds the beginning of a fruitful new synthesis, without threatening the integrity of either technique.

Intelligent Exercise With Pilates & Yoga: A Contemporary And Dynamic Combination of Body Control Pilates And Yoga

Napper, Howard

Pilates body conditioning is today`s fitness buzzword, and following the success of Lynne Robinson and Gordon Thomson`s original Body Control: The Pilates Way a variety of books have appeared, none as authoritative, practical, safe and geared towards solving your body`s problems as this.
`How will Pilates help me?` is its keynote, so after explaining the fundamental Eight Principles through accessible, balanced core programmes come `Pilates prescriptions` for your specific needs. From back pains, posture problems to prevention of common sports injuries and training your children to use their bodies properly, this is the one-stop reference.

The Official Body Control Pilates Manual

This is a holistic guide to looking good, top to toe, inside and out, mind and body. Built up of chapters that focus on a specific part of the body - from the face down to the feet - it combines classic and new Body Control Pilates exercises with beauty advice, health in formation and nutritional guidance to tackle problem areas and help enhance favorite features. As well as teaching you exactly how the Body Control Pilates system works to strengthen, tone and condition the body from within, the book includes simple skincare, aromatherapy, reflexology and massage techniques. Every woman's complete guide to looking and feeling fantastic with the impressive effects of Body Control Pilates. 
The Perfect Body the Pilates Way is a truly definitive guide to looking good - top to toe, inside and out, mind and body. Built up of chapters that focus on a specific part of the body - from the face down to the feet - it combines classic and new Body Control Pilates exercises with beauty advice, health information and nutritional guidance to tackle problem areas and help enhance favorite features. Its unique approach fits easily into a modern lifestyle. As well as teaching you exactly how the Body Control Pilates system works to strengthen, tone and condition the body from within, you will find skincare, relaxation, reflexology and massage techniques from leading health and beauty experts, this is the safest and most comprehensive guide you can buy for a healthier and better-looking body. Be inspired by this simple, stylish and modern approach and you'll quickly be on the way to a happier, healthier and fitter body.

Perfect Body: The Pilates Way

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