Have you always wanted to learn Pilates, but don't know how to get started? Get Started: Pilates is your perfect, patient teacher, taking you from complete beginner to being able to master 70 Pilates poses and nine sequences. Start simple with basic poses, breathing techniques, and routines; build on them with master rolls, swings, curls, and stretches; and take it a step further by increasing your reps for intense workouts and achieving total body control. Packed with advice, reminders, and help when things go wrong, Get Started: Pilates will soon have you hooked on this body-transforming exercise. 
More than any other series on the market, DK's Get Started series simulates carefully structured classroom lessons, an approach that allows you to custom-build courses with practical lessons and themed projects. Nothing's assumed, and everything's explained; each book answers fundamental questions, identifies the subject's basics, and provides step-by-step explanations and assessments so you can fulfill your own unique potential.

Get Started: Pilates

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Hayes, Anya

Exercise & Fitness

Pilates for Pregnancy covers the fundamentals of Pilates and includes a progressive Pilates program tailored for each trimester--focusing on pelvic floor and abdominal strength, posture and health &amp; fitness. Anya Hayes' insightful exercise guide will help you conquer the physical and mental stresses of pregnancy and improve your pregnancy health, mood, and energy.
This is a straight talking, woman-to-woman pregnancy fitness guide that shows you:
· how to optimize the position of your baby for a better birth experience; · how to avoid succumbing to the "pregnancy waddle" and protect your back as your bump grows; · how to deal with second pregnancy posture while running after/constantly lifting a toddler; · how to minimize the trials of pregnancy on your abdominals, pelvic floor and mind; · how to get into the right mindset for a positive labor, and release tension postnatally; · exactly what cardio exercise is safe and beneficial to you and your bump, and what you should avoid.

Pilates for Pregnancy: A safe and effective guide for pregnancy and motherhood

Bloomsbury Sport

A postnatal recovery program aimed at all mothers, offering a Pilates regimen based on up-to-date research on pelvic floor and abdominal healing.
This is a straight-talking, woman-to-woman postnatal recovery guide with a twist: based around Pilates fundamentals and a progressive Pilates program tailored for postnatal recovery, this book will enable women to establish good posture and breathing habits for life as well as rebuilding strength after birth.
Pelvic floor dysfunction is a real issue, affecting 75% of women in their lifetime. We have a culture of suffering in silence, and currently many women simply accept postnatal issues such as pelvic floor weakness and abdominal separation, which can be a cause of pain, embarrassment and mental health problems. Postnatal Pilates is a guide to taking control of postnatal recovery, empowering women with robust information and techniques to take their recovery into their own hands, as well as providing essential signposts on when to seek professional guidance.
Posture tips are easily incorporated into day-to-day life (breastfeeding, pushing the buggy, at your desk, picking up your toddler) and the book also features bite-sized health, fitness and wellbeing advice throughout, along with tips for dealing with the physical and mental stresses of early motherhood. Exercise routines are broken down into 10/20/30-minute sessions so that women can realistically aim to commit to them around life with a baby.
Foreword by Lynne Robinson, Pilates guru and founder of Body Control Pilates

Postnatal Pilates: A Recovery and Strength Guide for Life

My Pilates Guru: Your Ultimate Pilates Instructor

Walking Stick Pr

Pregnancy: the naked truth is a refreshing alternative to the medical pregnancy tomes. It is down-to-earth, funny and honest, guiding women through each stage of pregnancy in a practical and reassuring way. It deals with issues other books may avoid, and answers questions you'd want to ask your best friend; I got drunk before I knew; is my baby ok? What's an episiotomy? Are piles inevitable? Can I still have sex when I'm huge? And will I enjoy it? Aimed at modern girls; women who may be concerned about the effect of a baby on their lifestyle, bodies and careers, as well as excited about the next step in their lives; the book supports you through your pregnancy journey, ,

Pregnancy The Naked Truth: A refreshingly honest guide to pregnancy and birth

Smith, Hollie

Women's Health

White Ladder

Stop feeling like a failure, and start enjoying motherhood| <ul> <li style="list-style: none"> </li> <li>Addresses the idea of 'Supermum', showing how unhelpful it is to try and reach unrealistic perfection</li> <li style="list-style: none"> </li> <li>Deals with negative emotions many mums feel: anxiety, self-doubt, guilt, and teaches them to change their thinking methods</li> <li style="list-style: none"> </li> <li>Uses proven techniques such as CBT, mindfulness and narrative therapies to empower mums to change their mindset and feel happier</li> <li style="list-style: none"> </li> <li>Teaches mums to focus on THEIR strengths and stop comparing themselves to others&nbsp;</li> <li style="list-style: none"> </li> </ul> |Empowers mums to stop feeling like they're not good enough, as they strive to be 'Supermum' - and start having confidence in their parenting. Uses CBT, mindfulness and narrative therapies to dismiss negative thoughts, learn to stop comparing yourself to others and to be a happier mum.|As mums, we've all had that feeling of "not being good enough", not measuring up to expectations of how we should be doing - where parenting is concerned this is a really unhelpful trap to fall into, and doesn't help you or your children. It can lead to feelings of anxiety, guilt and failure. Especially if you're attaining to be an unrealistic figure: Supermum. What if you were able to dwell on the good stuff rather than the bad? To have confidence in your decisions, trust your gut, and let go of your skewed vision of 'perfect parenting'? The key is to find a way to navigate through any unhelpful thought patterns, to find a more positive, healthier outlook. This is a book for those seeking to find that shift in perception: to turn around your negative mindset, to view your own achievements in a different light, to be kinder to yourself. It uses CBT, mindfulness and other established therapies to help you to rebuild your confidence in your own parenting style and drown out the niggling competitive doubts. The sooner you do this, the sooner you can enjoy parenting your kids, and they will thank you for it. Embracing the imperfect, being good enough. With easy-to-follow activities combining a blend of other psychological strategies, the book walks you through exactly how to unpick your bad thinking habits. Author Anya Hayes and clinical psychologist Dr Rachel Andrew give you in-the-moment solutions to common parenting flashpoints, as well as enabling you to create robust, positive and flexible ways to approach parenting decisions in the future.

The Supermum Myth: Become a happier mum by overcoming anxiety, ditching guilt and embracing imperfection using CBT and mindfulness techniques

Parenting & Relationships

Andrew, Dr Rachel

Family Relationships

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