Pilates on the Ball
by Colleen Craig
Bear & Company
$18.95/softcover
192 pages
A unique and exciting synthesis of two highly-acclaimed fitness techniques—The Pilates Method of body conditioning and the Swiss exercise ball—provides a new, low-impact way to get fit.
Enormously popular, The Pilates Method was developed in the early twentieth century by accomplished boxer and gymnast Joseph Pilates. Named by lifestyle and fitness magazines as the hottest workout of the decade, Pilates improves posture, builds long lean muscles, increases stamina, joint flexibility and mobility, firms abdominal and prevents and heals lower back pain. It also relaxes and rejuvenates. Now with the use of the exercise ball as the base for Pilates techniques, there is no need for expensive equipment or training.
Pilates on the Ball stimulates more than muscles and many different types of people will benefit: Improve your mind-body connection, discover how to move with meaning, work the weak side and not just the strong side of your body, release stress, lose weight and improve cardiovascular fitness. Step-by-step instructions and more than 300 photographs are provided for all levels of ability.
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