This Pilates reformer stretching book/class is for anyone (not just men!) who are stiff in all the wrong places! There is one stretch for each of the major muscles groups of the body. Each stretch has been deliberately selected for “any body” who can’t touch their toes, who sit at their desk all day, who has any kind of stress, back or neck pain, or who wakes up in the morning feeling less like a well-oiled machine and more like the Tin-man (or Tin-person).Trialed over a 15-year period with thousands of students in his “Stiffies” Pilates classes, Anthony Lett selected this beginners class for its safety and simplicity. There is a deliberate lack of complexity so that you can easily feel what ought to be felt. This feature, and the Pilates reformer itself will mean there is no more guessing ‘Am I doing it right?”The simple step by step cues and incredible anatomical images add another dimension to the material, allowing teachers and students to see inside every exercise. You can follow along for 60 to 90 minutes, or choose the series that is just right for your body.This version contains bonus QR code and video!

Stretching for Stiffies: A Full Body Pilates Reformer Stretching Routine for Every Body

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Lett, Anthony

Diaz, Kenyi

Exercise & Fitness

Rebus Press

Not just another Pilates book, Innovations in Pilates; Matwork for Health and Wellbeing will show you how to effectively develop one of Joseph Pilates original goals, how to become more flexible. By first breaking down and then teaching you the flexibility requirements of the classical Matwork, IIP Matwork will enable you to succeed safely at all of those difficult Pilates exercises that have you stuck because they require significant flexibility to perform. If your goal is just to improve your flexibility irrespective of how it may improve your Pilates, this book is for you too! This book will show you: • The original/classical Pilates Matwork exercises and their flexibility requirements • How to break down/deconstruct the classical exercises into smaller movements and stretches that are easier to achieve • How to stretch with the latest, safest and most effective stretching science • Both solo and partner stretching exercises • Superb anatomy illustrations, which you can explore experientially in your practice

Innovations in Pilates: Matwork for Health and Wellbeing

Whether you are just beginning your Pilates journey, or have been practicing or teaching for years, Stretching on the Pilates Reformer will be an invaluable resource-one that allows you to see each exercise in an entirely new light. With modern variations on some of the classics, and some entirely new stretches too, the anatomically detailed full color 3D graphics take you inside every exercise. With clear, simple, step-by-step cues that have been tried and tested over a 20-year period, Stretching on the Pilates Reformer provides you with a deeper understanding of the structures and principles underlying each movement. You will be able to teach and practice these safe and effective stretches in no time at all. If you have an interest in stretching and anatomy, the stunning illustrations in this book will show you how each muscle is used, how slight alterations in position can enhance and reduce effectiveness and how breathing and body position are related. With over 100 images and 50 exercises you can target a specific region to stretch, strengthen and develop self-awareness skills in the process.

Stretching on the Pilates Reformer: Essential Cues and Images (Innovations in Pilates)

Se possedete o utilizzate un Pilates Reformer, dovete avere questo libro! Sia che abbiate appena iniziato il vostro viaggio nel Pilates, o che pratichiate o insegnate da anni, Stretching on the Pilates Reformer sarà una preziosa risorsa che vi permetterà di vedere ogni esercizio sotto una luce completamente nuova. Con variazioni moderne di alcuni classici, e allungamenti del tutto nuovi, i dettagli grafici anatomici 3D a colori vi porteranno all’interno di ogni esercizio.

Stretching on the Pilates Reformer: Essential Cues and Images (Italian) (Italian Edition)

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Whether you are just beginning your Pilates journey, or have been practising or teaching for years, Stretching on the Pilates Reformer, now with QR codes with live video, will be an invaluable resource-one that allows you to see each exercise in an entirely new light. With modern variations on some of the classics, and some entirely new stretches too, the anatomically detailed full color 3D graphics and video take you inside every exercise. With clear, simple, step-by-step cues that have been tried and tested over a 20-year period, Stretching on the Pilates Reformer provides you with a deeper understanding of the structures and principles underlying each movement. You will be able to teach and practice these safe and effective stretches in no time at all. If you have an interest in stretching and anatomy, the stunning illustrations in this book will show you how each muscle is used, how slight alterations in position can enhance and reduce effectiveness and how breathing and body position are related. With over 100 images, 27 videos and 50 exercises you can target a specific region to stretch, strengthen and develop self-awareness skills in the process.

Stretching on the Pilates Reformer: Essential Cues and Images (QR Code & Video Edition): (QR Code & Video Edition)

A hack is an innovative and unorthodox way to crack a big problem. Although stretching is not a new prescription for managing and alleviating chronic low back pain, doing it on a Pilates reformer, with precision cues and 3D images is definitely novel. The Pilates reformer makes performing your exercises incorrectly very difficult- a critical point in ensuring exercise adherence and positive outcomes in rehabilitation. It also allows safe and intricate movements so that you can relax and find just the “right spot” for you. Fabulous 3D images mean no more guesswork, no wondering “am I doing it right?” Chronic low back pain has hit epidemic proportions in the developed world. Costing billions in inactivity, lost work days and healthcare costs, it is a problem brought about primarily by the mismatch between our modern environments and our ancient bodies. Bodies that evolved over millions of years to be both strong and supple. Pilates reformer stretching can assist in restoring your function and managing your pain. Tried and tested over a 20-year period with many thousands of clients, the simple cues and safe stretches in Hack Your Low Back may well rid you of the pain, frustration, sense of fatigue and depression that so often accompany chronic dysfunction.

Hack Your Low Back With Pilates Reformer Stretching

Well known presenter, teacher and top selling Pilates author Anthony Lett has cherry picked stretches from the disciplines of physical therapy, Osteopathy, Yoga, Pilates, martial arts and dance and trialled them over a 20-year period in his studio. Anthony has culled the fluff and leaves you with the safest and most effective material that works. ‘No fillers, all thrillers’ is the result! As well as presenting in 25 countries to health professionals on the subject of stretching, Anthony has worked with some of the world’s best Karate champions, in Moscow with dancers from the Russian Bolshoi ballet, on thousands of wounded weekend warriors and even sheep shearers from outback Western Australia. All have benefitted from a body of work that is person oriented, not pose oriented. It’s truly a work for “every body.” He explains simply and with clarity how to use a “PNF” technique which fastbacks your flexibility gains and provides loads of stunning full color 3D anatomy images to assist you to understand the practice. The work has a focus on single joints and smaller groups of muscles so that there’s no guessing about doing it right or feeling it in the right place. It’s not stretching for dummies, but it’s stretching that’s hard to get wrong. There are simple and logical cues and images and a host of solo and partner stretches for each muscle group to explore, because although one stretch may be effective for one person, for various reasons like individual bone shape, it might not work for someone else. This realistic and pragmatic approach, honed by many years of experimentation on real bodies, ensures that in this book at least, you will find a collection of stretches just right for you!

Stretchfit: Safe, effective mat stretches for every body

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