Banish Back Pain the Pilates Way

by Anna Selby

Book Overview

Anybody who suffers from back pain will agree that it is a miserable and debilitating condition, often brought on by a sedentary lifestyle and an inability to properly relax. Pilates is one of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0007141262
• ISBN13: 9780007141265
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Thorsons Publishers
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 5.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Excitingly different

In the early 1900s, a sickly young German lad decided to strengthen his body. Developing his own philosophy of exercise that embraces body, breath and mind, Joseph Pilates turned himself and his body around, turning himself into one of the exercise gurus of the early 20th century. This book is an updated example of the Pilates method, filled with lots of illustrating pictures. Overall, my wife and I have found this to be an excitingly different approach to exercise, one that incorporates stretching and breathing with strengthening exercises, and (so far anyway) is proving successful at alleviating her back pain. We both give this book our highest recommendations!