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

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Robinson, Lynne

Convy, Gerry

Exercise & Fitness

Pan Books, Ltd.

<p>From the world's bestselling author on Pilates. The thinking person's guide to the gym! By applying the principles of Pilates, the world's most popular fitness program, to a range of exercise forms, you'll achieve a perfect balance of strength, flexibility, stamina, and cardiovascular health. Realign and reshape the body correctly by learning how to move well and give muscles maximum toning with a minimum of wear and tear. Picture-filled double-page spreads present gentle stretches for loosening every area of the body, calisthenics that concentrate on specific muscles, and all the popular machines (rower, treadmill, stationary bike, elliptical cross trainer, and more). For every one you'll learn the aim of the exercise, watch points, guidelines for good technique, and a list of common mistakes. Complete programs are laid out for you--with warm-ups, cooldowns, pre- and post-machine stretches, and abdominals--for in the gym and at home. Plus: 18 new body-control Pilates mat exercises!</p>

Pilates Workout

Friedman

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