Pilates books

Core Strength Workout - book

By Karon Karter

Transform your body with the exercises that dancers, gymnasts and Olympic athletes count on to stay strong.
With The Core Strength Workout as your guide, you will target the critical torso muscles that make the difference between fit and fabulous. You'll walk taller, sleeker and leaner within weeks!

No matter what your current level of fitness, you'll find easy and effective routines that work for you.
Inside these beautiful full-colour pages, celebrated fitness instructor and author Karon Karter shows you how to flatten your tummy with yoga and Pilates moves; strengthen your back and improve your posture; use the exercise ball to tighten your torso; progress from beginner to intermediate to advanced routines; and work your abs in only ten minutes.

Body Control Pilates Manual

Lynne Robinson

Pilates body conditioning is today's fitness buzzword, and following the storming 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.

With the growing support of many GPs, osteopaths and chiropractors, not to mention stars from screen, stage and sport, when you exercise with Pilates Body Control, you're in excellent company. 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.

Balance Training - Bosu etc - Karon Karter

This book takes balance training to the next level by offering a full range of exercises, including those incorporating, new pieces of equipment such as the balance cushion, the BOSU, the Balance Board and the wobble board. By working various muscle groups in coordination with one another, amazing results can be produced in a short amount of time.

From creating a lean body shape to increasing balance and decreasing back pain, these exercises bring together the benefits of yoga and Pilates as well as strength and core training — all in one easy-to-follow program.
Balance Training offers workouts for all levels of physical fitness and describes each exercise in detail, including step-by-step photos showing proper positioning and form.

Pilates for a flat stomach - book

By Anna Selby

Get the flat stomach you've always wanted!

Pilates is one of the best forms of exercise for people who want a longer, leaner physique. Now Pilates expert Anna Selby has selected specific exercises designed to help you achieve the toned stomach you've always dreamed of.

• Look and feel fantastic
• Fit the routines around your day - ideal for the home or workplace
• Improve core strength and posture
• Exercise without injury - the safe and effective exercise system

This is the perfect book for people with hectic lifestyles: in just 15 minutes a day you can not only improve the apperance of your stomach but also work the muscels that support your back, thereby improving posture. Pilates is a safe, low-impact, high energy exercise that will soon have you looking and feeling fantastic.

Pilates Deck: 50 Exercises to Strengthen, Lenthen, and Tone Your Muscles

Develop a strong and flexible body that moves with ease and grace. With these 50 pilates exercise cards, you'll enjoy invigorating exercise that targets areas which support good posture and long muscles.

Without relying on machines, The Pilates Deck makes working out easy by incorporating mat exercises that progress from preparatory movements to advanced sequences.

Banish Back Pain the Pilates Way

by Anna Selby

Starting with gentle exercises this book gradually builds up to more difficult exercises to strengthen the back and supporting muscles to protect against back problems. And because Pilates is a gentle and low impact exercise, you can work the body without the risk of injury. Anna shows you how to:
• Gently mobilise the body after injury
• Protect the back from future injury
• Improve flexibility and posture

The Body Control Pilates Back Book

By Lynne Robinson, Helge Fisher & Paul Massey

A self-help manual focusing on back pain prevention and rehabilitation using the Pilates body conditioning system. Three in five of us will suffer from backache in our lives. In order to mitigate against the worst-case scenario, Pilates strengthens your back and also the supporting muscles so that it doesn't take all the strain. It exercises deeply but gently to rebalance the posture.

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.

Abs on the Balls

By Colleen Craig

In Abs on the Ball, Colleen Craig reveals why the exercise ball is unmatched as a tool for building superb abdominal strength. Abs on the Ball uses a Pilates approach: a unique exercise method famous for building long, sculpted muscles and a strong back and abdominal core. In this groundbreaking book Craig shows how traditional sit-ups and "ab" machines actually limit the degree to which abdominal muscles can be trained and can even aggravate lower back pain and neck tension. In contrast, the very mobility of the exercise ball targets underutilized muscles, recruiting both deep and superficial abdominal muscle fibers to give rapid results.

Abs on the Ball presents a selection of over 100 innovative exercises adapted specifically to large (55 and 65 cm) and small (9inch) exercise balls. Step-by-step instructions are detailed in more than 250 photographs. The author also offers 15- and 30-minute workouts for all ability levels. These workouts not only build the abdominal core but also strengthen and train deep muscles in order to soothe low-back pain and increase overall body strength, balance, and coordination

Travel Pilates

A brilliant program designed to maintain your core strength and stability when you are away from the studio - travelling or at home.

Say goodbye to exhaustion, aches and pains and the travel blues - Travel Pilates is your passport to a healthy life on the move.

Intelligent Exercise with Pilates and Yoga

By Lynne Robinson & Howard Napper

This guide highlights how Yoga & Pilates are grounded in a similar awareness of the body. Forty exercises (for beginners and intermediates) demonstrate common ground wherever possible; there are also areas where the ability to choose is put in your hands - part of the concept of intelligent exercise. Special attention is given to the fundamentals, such as the crucial timing of the breath before, during and after each movement, and the underlying structures involved. With workout plans to energize, relax and lengthen the body, this book heralds the beginning of a fruitful new synthesis, without threatening the integrity of either technique.