Pilates Body in Motion: Streamline Your Body, Focus Your Mind with Classic Mat Exercises to do at Home - Softcover

Ungaro, Alycea

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241229472 ISBN 13: 9780241229477

Publisher: DK, 2016

Synopsis

Streamline your body and focus your mind with Pilates: Body in Motion, the at-home instructor you've always wished for, updated with a fresh, new look.

Stretch yourself at your own pace with tailored programmes for beginner, intermediate and advanced level. More than 50 exercises are demonstrated with clear photographs and annotated with expert advice showing you exactly what to do and what not to do. Written by a pioneer of the Pilates method, Alycea Ungaro brought the first mat Pilates classes to New York nearly 20 years ago.

This popular guide will help improve posture, muscle tone, balance and joint mobility, as well as relieve stress and tension. If you want mat-based Pilates exercises that are flexible enough to fit your lifestyle, Pilates: Body in Motion is for you.

(Previous edition ISBN: 9780751336917)

About this title

About the Author

Alycea Ungaro is a pioneer of the Pilates method, an authority on fitness and wellbeing, and owner of the prestigious New York studio, Real Pilates. She began studying Pilates at the age of 14, and trained for a decade before becoming and instructor under the tutelage of Romana Kryzanowska, Joseph Pilates' chosen successor. She is the resident Pilates expert for About.com and is the author of several best-selling titles including 15-Minute Everyday Pilates (DK, 2008), and The Pilates Practice Companion (DK, 2001). Alycea runs the Real Pilates teacher training programme globally, and has trained scores of celebrities including Madonna, Uma Thurman, Kyra Sedgwick, Claire Danes, Molly Sims, and Christy Turlington. Beyond her Pilates expertise, Alycea is a licensed physical therapist and nutritionist.

From the Back Cover

Streamline your body and focus your mind with Pilates: Body in Motion, the at-home instructor you've always wished for, updated with a fresh, new look.

Stretch yourself at your own pace with tailored programmes for beginner, intermediate and advanced level. More than 50 exercises are demonstrated with clear photographs and annotated with expert advice showing you exactly what to do and what not to do. Written by a pioneer of the Pilates method, Alycea Ungaro brought the first mat Pilates classes to New York nearly 20 years ago.

This popular guide will help improve posture, muscle tone, balance and joint mobility, as well as relieve stress and tension. If you want mat-based Pilates exercises that are flexible enough to fit your lifestyle, Pilates: Body in Motion is for you.

Edition details

• Publisher: DK
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241229472
• ISBN 13: 9780241229477
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176