Pilates: Simple Routines for Home, Work and Travel

by Alan Herdman (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2006

  $5.78

  An easy exercise routine that fits into any daily routine whether eating breakfast, standing on the train or sitting at your computer. It contains exercises that will improve the way you look, how you feel about yourself and help reduce stress levels. It features easy step-by-step instructions that can be used wherever you are, whatever you are doing - no need for special equipment or a gym. Itvalso provides quick and easy exercises to help your body and mind work in harmony, to improve your posture and to reduce those niggling aches and pains, in addition to, fully photographed with clear, easy-to-follow instructions.

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $3.25

  The Pilates technique teaches you how to use your body correctly. This practical guide to Pilates presents a series of step-by-step exercise routines that are designed to ease aches, improve mobility, release tension, strengthen and tone your abdomen, lift your buttocks, and banish back ache. A warm-up routine is included to focus the mind and prepare the body. This is followed by three levels, each one working every part of your body. When you can perform each movement in a level comfortably, you move on to the next level. The book also provides a self assessment to help you identify your strengths and weaknesses and to see how you improve as you work through the routines in the book.