Pilates Bestsellers: Get The Body You Want

The Pilates Body: The Ultimate At-Home Guide to Strengthening, Lengthening, and Toning Your Body—Without Machines by Brooke Siler is a great way to learn the art of Pilates. Celebrities have sworn by Pilates to keep their figures toned and flexible. For nearly 100 years, this fitness program has gained popularity. This book shows that Pilates can be done simply with just an exercise mat. All parts of the body are used this exercise but the focus is on abdominals, which supports the back, making Pilates an ideal exercise for someone with back problems. Exercises are organized into beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels.

Pilates Anatomy by Rael Isacowitz shows you Pilates in a way you have never seen it before. With detailed descriptions, step-by-step instructions, full color illustrations, this book takes you inside the exercises that will tone your body, stabilize the core, improve balance, and increase flexibility. You can choose from over 45 exercises and target particular body regions to stretch, strengthen, and coordinate specific muscles. Also included are techniques for breathing, concentration, and self-awareness for an exercise experience that will enhance your mind and body. This book is one a kind and will leave you feeling healthy and having you reach for it again and again in the future. Pilates Anatomy is ideal for beginners and people who have been practicing Pilates for years.

A Pilates' Primer: The Millennium Edition by Joseph Pilates and Judd Robbins includes the only two published works of Joseph Pilates, the founder of Pilates. Newly revised and edited, this book contains all of his early philosophies, principles, and theories about health and fitness, poses, instructions, and exercises fundamental to his fitness program. You can also learn all of his original 34 mat exercises that he taught to his own students. He shares tenets of posture, body mechanics, correct breathing, spinal flexibility, and his law of natural exercises. Joseph Pilates was revolutionary in his impact on the world of fitness and exercise.

Treat Your Own Rotator Cuff by Jim Johnson is a complete program to prevent and rehabilitate rotator cuff injuries for athletes and non-athletes alike. You will learn how the rotator cuff works, what can go wrong with it, as well as guided step-by-step evidence-based programs that take just minutes a week to complete. This book draws from the latest rotator cuff research and is very useful for those who have been diagnosed with partial or full thickness tears, experience shoulder pain, or has a job that involves repeated arm motions. Jim Johnson is an accredited physical therapist that has spent almost twenty years treating patients with mobility problems.

Pilates by Rael Isacowitz will help you strengthen, lengthen, and sculpt your muscles with the full range of Pilates exercises. World-renowned Pilates expert Isacowitz shows you the same steps he used to train ten Olympians as well as elite group of professional instructors who work with celebrities and athletes around the world. You can choose from 210 exercises from the most comprehensive guide available on the Pilates method.