Pilates for Everyone
50 Exercises for Every Type of Body
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- R$ 44,90
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- R$ 44,90
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Pilates benefits every body--including yours!
Pilates is exercise for your mind, body, and spirit, but what if your body won't cooperate? How can you take advantage of all Pilates has to offer--strengthening your core, enhancing your flexibility, and even improving your posture--if you think you're too old or too big or too physically unable to perform the Hundred, the Shoulder Bridge, or the Double-Leg Stretch?
No matter what your age, size, or physical ability is, you can do every exercise in Pilates for Everyone. Each Pilates exercise shows the typical movements for gaining the physical and mental benefits from that exercise. Then each exercise offers at least three variations performed by people just like you to help you find the right modification that fits who you are. This way, no matter which version you perform, you're going to reach similar goals.
Pilates for Everyone includes these features:
-50 step-by-step exercises for specific body areas
-Step-by-step modifications for every exercise
-10 routines that combine exercises from the book for maximum benefits
-Expert advice from Micki Havard on how to get the most out of your practice
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After 20 years of practicing and instructing pilates, Havard brings what she's learned to the page in her empowering debut. When she began Pilates, Havard noticed a " ‘Stepford'-like quality to the instructors and the practitioners. Everyone was twenty-something and slender, and they looked like dancers or models." By contrast, Havard lays out a "non-intimidating and welcoming" practice broken into seven parts. The first covers basic Pilates facts, such as its history (Joseph Pilates, a German immigrant, began the method in New York City in the late 1920s), different types (such as classical and contemporary), and benefits (core strength and flexibility among them). Next come poses for one's upper body, lower body, and total body, then standing and chair Pilates, and a series of sequences combining multiple poses rounds things out. Havard takes all body types into consideration—each pose she presents comes with a slew of variations based on one's needs and abilities, and the brief interviews with each of the models featured in the poses add a wealth of perspectives. The diverse cast and regimen modification options go hand-in-hand with Havard's encouraging tone: "Who should do Pilates? You—no matter who you are." The result is a welcome and refreshing departure from standard fitness fare.
