Pilates Personal Trainer Back Strengthening Workout: Illustrated Step-by-Step Matwork Routine

By Michael King and Yolande Green

Book Overview

Developed by Joseph Pilates almost 80 years ago, Pilates combines elements of yoga and bodywork. It is important that users follow the vital elements of Pilates in every workout and Pilates Personal... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1569753539
• ISBN13: 9781569753538
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Ulysses Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Gets cranky backs started on pilates.

I had purchased Ungaro's Body in Motion and Siler's Pilates Body to begin doing pilates, as they were generally the most respected texts. But my back couldn't handle the most basic level of some of the introductory exercises. This book, however, along with Tia Stanmore's Pilates Back Book, has given me a sequence of exercises and modifications that will get me where I want to be. This book is brief, but does not claim to give you a complete pilates program -- just preliminary and, later, supplemental exercises for those of us with cranky backs. The Ungaro and Siler books are generally superior in terms of illustration and textual guidance, but without this book I'd be quitting and/or hurting before I ever got going with Pilates.