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An exercise routine embraced by professional dancers for over fifty years, Pilates is now the hottest and most talked about fitness trend since the running shoe. The perfect blend of Yoga and Nautilus, Pilates concentrates on building strength and flexibility, improving coordination, balance, and posture, and increasing stamina. All Pilates movements are initiated by muscles in the abdominal area (known as the powerhouse) and are designed to work the smaller muscles that support larger ones, while stretching and lengthening the entire muscular package. A low-impact yet highly intense workout, Pilates is ideal for everyone, young or old, those who are extremely fit or out of shape, as well as those who have chronic pain, injuries, or asthma. Illustrated with over 100 black-and-white photographs, The Pilates Powerhouse brings this time-efficient and highly effective means to get and stay in shape into the home, without the need for expensive classes and elaborate equipment. Using only a mat, a stick and, for advanced Pilates, a ball, readers will feel personally trained by Mari Winsors innovative routines and spirited instruction, reaping the dramatic and lasting results of Pilates in less than an hour a day.
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When most people make the decision to engage in regular exercise, they look at themselves with disgust and say, "I have to lose some weight," or "I need to tone these flabby muscles, so I guess I need to go to the gym." Read the first page
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great guide to Pilates system,
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This review is from: The Pilates Powerhouse: The Essential Home Guide for Improving Strength, Tone, Shape and Balance, No Equipment Necessary (Paperback)
Mari Winsor's guide to Pilates is an excellent introduction to this fitness regime, and as the exercises are graded from Beginner level to Expert, there are always new challenges. The explanatory photographs are a great help, and the text is generally clear, although in a few places she leaves syntax behind, but you know what she means. There is rather a lot of read-once material bookending the exercises, but it is interesting, and maybe some people would find it inspirational. One quibble is that Vermilion apparently did not edit this with an eye to the UK market - being asked to do something in time to 'America the Beautiful' is confusing if you aren't sure how that goes... On the other hand, the exercises work, and there can be no higher praise.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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Very Good,
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This review is from: The Pilates Powerhouse: The Essential Home Guide for Improving Strength, Tone, Shape and Balance, No Equipment Necessary (Paperback)
I found Mari's book to be very helpful. It is well structured and has clear photos and instructions for all exercises. It is convenient as an easy reference guide to many Pilates exercises. This book guides you through these exercises in a proper sequence, unlike some other books I have read, thus ensuring maximum benefit and performing them in the correct manner just how Joseph Pilates originally intended. Mari is clearly very passionate about Pilates. The beginning chapters of the book (before the exercises start) I found to be interesting and in places quite profound. She obviously has a lot of strength and spirit and she conveys this well throughout her book.
21 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Frightening - only for professionals,
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This review is from: The Pilates Powerhouse: The Essential Home Guide for Improving Strength, Tone, Shape and Balance, No Equipment Necessary (Paperback)
Mari Winsor seems to me very complex in her explanations, e.g.it is very difficult to make head or tail about her explanation of "the powerhouse" which must be strengthened. By comparison Lynn Robinson in the Book "Pilates: the way forward" just says "imagine you have to "zip up" your trousers and hollow this area. How much simpler is this image!All the mat exercises are here. Only they are presented in a frightening way. No way could I ever start doing those. Again dealing with exactly the same subject, Michael King in "Pure Pilates" gives the exercises with a set a gradual preparations to them if you are not up to the standard of performance required by the full exercises. If you are an athlete or a dancer (as Mari Winsor is) fine then this book is for you. If you are just a beginner, beware, the book might put you off a tremendous way of exercising. Because what Mari Winsor says is true, Pilates will change your life. Do try it, it feels great. Michael King "Pure Pilates " and Lynn Robinson " The way forward" are better for starters. They are also more engaging.
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