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.

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.

Pilates on the Ball

By Colleen Craig

Pilates on the Ball merges the principles and exercises of the highly effective Pilates Method of body conditioning with the unique functions of the exercise ball, used by athletes to fine-tune body awareness and enhance physical performance.

Maintaining balance on the ball causes the deep, stabilising muscles of the spine to activate and strengthen the postural muscles of the back. The book offers exercises to challenge all levels of ability.