Product Description: Stretch Out Strap Pilates by Angela Kneale, OTR, targets dynamic exercises that both lengthen and strengthen the body, while challenging core stability and control. Using the Stretch Out Strap during exercise provides sensory feedback that helps develop better posture, flexibility, muscular balance and body symmetry, as well as core strength and shoulder stabililty. These exercises heighten body awareness and relieve stress, focusing on deep breathing and quality, controlled movements. Over 40 exercises, Color photographs, Softcover, 48 pages.

• Paperback: 48 pages
• Publisher: Orthopedic Physical Therapy Products; first edition (October 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0979988063
• ISBN-13: 978-0979988066
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 6.9 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #190,392 in Books

Stretch Out Strap Pilates Essentials (Paperback)

Product Description: Desk Pilates brings the benefits of a little recess into each day - increasing variety of movement, improving posture, emphasizing strength and flexibility. Desk Pilates, by Angela Kneale, OTR, introduces Pilates principles, core muscles and practical ways to align your body while sitting. The Desk Pilates exercise sequence can be performed in its entirety or focus on a few mind-body movements during your day. Over 50 pages, Softcover, Illustrated.

• Paperback: 50 pages
• Publisher: Orthopedic Physical Therapy Products; first edition (October 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0979988039
• ISBN-13: 978-0979988035
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #410,647 in Books

Desk Pilates: Living Pilates Every Day (Paperback)

Product Description: A fitness regime that finally removes boredom and repetition and infuses mental clarity and perfect posture.

As professionals with busy lives, we don t have time for everything we would like to do. We must choose our priorities which will yield the greatest positive influence on our lives for the time and effort expended. Pilates is well worth this investment.

Making the mental and physical connection while doing Pilates is exceptionally powerful and empowering. You will crave and channel your level of engagement and not just in your workouts. Your mindfulness in living your best life will go up and your level of stress will go down. How can you not love that!

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: MindBody Publishing; First Edition edition (November 2, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0978714504
• ISBN-13: 978-0978714505
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 8.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review:  
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #615,633 in Books

Mind Your Body: Pilates for the Seated Professional (Paperback)

Product Description: The Anatomy of Pilates shows what actually happens to the body’s muscles and joints during Pilates exercises. Each two-page spread features detailed anatomical illustrations of an exercise (with muscle actions highlighted in red), a detailed description of the exercise and its objectives, the particular breathing pattern to be used, a list of the specific muscles being worked, visualization techniques, complementary exercises, and more. The Anatomy of Pilates is an accessible, authoritative guide for current and prospective teachers of Pilates, practitioners at all skill levels, physical therapists, and other health professionals.

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books (April 28, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1556437803
• ISBN-13: 978-1556437809
• Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 7.7 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #76,678 in Books

The Anatomy of Pilates (Paperback)

Product Description: Biographer and journalist May (Adventures of a Psychic) turns to fiction to offer a privileged woman's view of religion, spirituality, sex and marriage in the time of Christ. May imagines 14-year-old Claudia Procula living with loving parents and holding a secret devotion to the goddess Isis and a gift for seeing the future. Six years later, Claudia marries the handsome and ambitious Pontius Pilate just before her family falls from imperial favor.

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (October 9, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 006112866X
• ISBN-13: 978-0061128660
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #380,988 in Books

Pilate's Wife: A Novel of the Roman Empire (Paperback)

Product Description: A full color exercise workbook that uses Pilates exercises to prepare the body for successful natural birthing. This book is written by a Pilates Master teacher and certified doula and offers information on the exercises that are both safe and beneficial for birth preparation. Included are sections on the anatomy and physiology of pregnancy as well as tips on breathing and relaxation as tools for labor and delivery. This is the official manual for The Center for Women's Fitness pre natal pilates teacher certification. Carolyne Anthony has inspired many instructors around the world with her vision of educating women about the benefits of birthing naturally. She has done this through the medium she understands the best- exercise. Her experience as a Pilates instructor and professional dancer coupled with her training as a birth doula have made this a must read book for both pilates teachers and pregnant women.

• Perfect Paperback: 180 pages
• Publisher: The Center for Women's Fitness; 1st edition (May 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0977268799
• ISBN-13: 978-0977268795
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review:

The Pilates Way to Birth (Perfect Paperback)

Product Description: From the creator of the award-winning Prenatal and Post-natal Pilates DVD comes Pilates and Pregnancy. Unlike other pregnancy exercise books, Sarah Picot's Pilates and Pregnancy workbook is interactive and combines an exercise workbook with a pregnancy journal. Write a letter to your unborn baby, keep track of prenatal test results, read fun facts about your pregnancy all while staying toned, preparing your body for labor and getting your figure back faster after delivery.
 

• Paperback: 212 pages
• Publisher: Picot Pilates; Pap/DVD edition (April 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0977815013
• ISBN-13: 978-0977815012
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #329,992 in Books

Pilates and Pregnancy: A Workbook for Before, During and After Pregnancy W/DVD (Paperback)

Product Description: Thin-but-fit supermodels like Amber Valletta and Shalom Harlow and actresses like Ally McBeal's Courtney Thorne-Smith and Liv Tyler swear by Pilates workouts to keep their figures toned and flexible. The Pilates Body is the latest in a string of books dedicated to this fitness program, which is now soaring in popularity nearly 100 years after it was first developed by Joseph Pilates in Germany in the early 1900s. While today's Pilates studios take advantage of patented and intimidating-looking equipment that costs thousands of dollars (and therefore charge accordingly for private sessions), each exercise in The Pilates Body can be performed with just an exercise mat. While all parts of the body are used in the exercises, the focus is on the abdominals, or "powerhouse," which support the back; this makes Pilates an ideal exercise for those with back problems--or those hoping to prevent them.

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Broadway; 1 edition (January 4, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 076790396X
• ISBN-13: 978-0767903967
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,113 in Books

The Pilates Body: The Ultimate At-Home Guide to Strengthening, Lengthening, and Toning Your Body--Without Machines (Paperback)

Product Description: The most authoritative, step-by-step guide to Pilates available on the market. Popular for decades with dancers, athletes, and celebrities, the Pilates Method is the perfect equipment-free workout for a stronger, leaner, fitter body. With great emphasis on precision and awareness, not only is Pilates great for the body, but for the mind as well. Using step-by-step mat-work exercises and a wide range of programs, from beginner to advanced, Pilate's Mind and Body is the only practical guide that shows you all of the proper steps to follow and how to avoid common mistakes in your conditioning.

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: DK ADULT; 1st edition (March 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789484005
• ISBN-13: 978-0789484000
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #57,333 in Books

Pilates: Body in Motion (Paperback)

Product Description: Studies suggest that proactive strengthening and flexibility-recovery exercises can speed healing after spine surgery. Whether you’re preparing for or recovering from spinal surgery, recuperating from a back injury, or just dealing with a back that has "issues," this book offers an effective program to help you manage pain and regain strength and mobility.

• Paperback: 155 pages
• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications; 1 edition (October 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1572244666
• ISBN-13: 978-1572244665
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: based on 3 reviews.
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #20,625 in Books

Pilates for Fragile Backs: Recovering Strength & Flexibility After Surgery, Injury, or Other Back Problems

Product Description: Authors Elizabeth Smith, PT, ATC, and Kristin Smith, CFT, ACSM, have combined their extensive hand-on rehab, training, lecturing experiences to introduce Pilates methods that are clinically relevant. Chapter content includes full adaptations for specific diagnoses, clinical applications, and case studies. Contains over 250 photographs, imagery illustrations, and anatomy illustrations.

• Spiral-bound: 223 pages
• Publisher: OPTP; 1 edition (November 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0976475782
• ISBN-13: 978-0976475781
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #547,686 in Books

Pilates for Rehab: A Guidebook to Integrating Pilates in Patient Care (Spiral-bound)

Product Description: In this beautiful new book, dressage rider and Level 2 Pilates Instructor Janice Dulak has compiled a program of Pilates exercises specifically designed to help the dressage rider enhance her ability for success in dressage. While they use different terms, both Pilates and dressage share an emphasis on to torso, or "Powerhouse" in Pilates-speak, and achieving core strength, good posture and muscle flexibility. The goals of a Pilates program are often Identical to what riders try to achcieve in the saddle in the sport of dressage.

• Hardcover: 152 pages
• Publisher: Half Halt Press, Inc. (August 21, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0939481723
• ISBN-13: 978-0939481729
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #109,132 in Books

Pilates for the Dressage Rider (Hardcover)

Product Description: Age Perfected pilates is the book designed especially for the mature fitness enthusiast. If you have back pain, neck pain, arthritis, or other aches and pains from an active lifestyle, this program will suit you. Now there are 'no excuses' for skipping your exercise routine. Using fitness tools like a small ball, BodyBolster and small weighted balls, this Pilates mat program will help provide extra support for the body as if you had your very own trainer right by your side. The small props (sold separately) allow you to make your workout challenging and efficient, improving posture, strength and flexibility.

• Spiral-bound: 103 pages
• Publisher: Orthopedic Physical Therapy Products; 1st edition (August 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0978649273
• ISBN-13: 978-0978649272
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #732,199 in Books

Age Perfected Pilates: Mat Exercises Designed to Improve Posture, Strength & Movement (Spiral-bound)

Product Description: Last year's launch of the 5-Minute Kit series was a big hit. Readers loved the lineup featuring everything from fitness to crafting fun - all without investing loads of time or money. To top it off, the kits are just the right size for gift giving. Pilates has captured the attention of exercise enthusiasts everywhere. This total-body workout is outlined in the 32-page booklet, and an elastic workout band enables the reader to get right to the stretch of things.

• Paperback: 32 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing (November 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0740747584
• ISBN-13: 978-0740747588
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 4.1 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,154,941 in Books

Five - Minute Pilates (Paperback)

Product Description: Published originally in 1980, The Pilates Method of Physical and Mental Conditioning was the first book of its kind: This is the book that brought Pilates out of the elite studios and into the lives of millions of Americans. Clear and easy to follow, this photo-filled text is the ideal way for a beginner to absorb a totally new concept of fitness. At the same time, the book’s authenticity and completeness make it an essential and challenging guide for anyone who practices Pilates, whatever their level. Using a few simple, well-designed movements, readers can master centering of the body, precision of movement, smoothness and flow of motion, and proper breathing and relaxation—in thirty minutes a day. Everyone wants a healthy and fit body. Now, with this reprint of the classic The Pilates Method of Physical and Mental Conditioning, the benefits of a toned, lithe body and a revitalized mind are available to everyone again.

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Studio (December 29, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0142005045
• ISBN-13: 978-0142005040
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #128,215 in Books

The Pilates Method of Physical and Mental Conditioning (Paperback)