Pilates for a Fabulous Body: The Complete Age Power Program by Lesley Ackland  (2)
|
This item is not eligible for Amazon Prime, but millions of other items are. Join Amazon Prime today. Already a member? Sign in.
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
Product details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
| Customers Viewing This Page May Be Interested in These Sponsored Links (What is this?) |
New Advanced Laser Lipo
www.NottinghamLaserClinic.com
Less Bruising, Less swelling Read what our patients say.
Transform Medical
www.transforminglives.co.uk
Excellent care from Transform the UK's top cosmetic surgery company.
Pilates Body
www.YogaMad.com/Pilates
Complete Range of Pilates Matwork Equipment and best Pilates mats!
Product Description
Synopsis
Body Power is an exercise system based on the Pilates method, traditionally used by ballet dancers and models, that is designed to make your body longer, leaner and stronger. The soft exercises combine low-impact but high-energy movements with realignment of posture to build your flexibility, stamina and strength. Designed to work for all ages and at all levels of fitness, the short Pilates exercises will soon leave you energized and exuding total confidence and grace. Lesley Ackland has designed a Pilates session to fit every part of your day and to tone every part of your body. With exercises from the Morning Maintenance for Bad Backs to the Pre-date Tummy Tightener, in just 15 minutes a day you too can have the lithe and beautiful body of a dancer.
From the Author
In the 1980s, when exercise, body conditioning and aerobics were becoming popular, I realized that I didn’t have an interest in my life outside my work as a teacher. So I decided to attend fitness classes in the old dance centre in Covent Garden, and found that I enjoyed them. Eventually I began to do teacher training in body conditioning. Around this time the first Pilates studio opened in the Pineapple Dance Studio and I went to classes out of curiosity. Very quickly I realized that Pilates was the broadest exercise programme I had encountered; first, because it involved so many different complementary exercise techniques and, second, because its original basis in injury rehabilitation provided an intellectual basis behind the technique.
Body Power is an exercise system based on the Pilates method, traditionally used by ballet dancers and models, that is designed to make your body longer, leaner and stronger. The soft exercises combine low-impact but high-energy movements with realignment of posture to build your flexibility, stamina and strength. Designed to work for all ages and at all levels of fitness, the short Pilates exercises will soon leave you energized and exuding total confidence and grace. Lesley Ackland has designed a Pilates session to fit every part of your day and to tone every part of your body. With exercises from the Morning Maintenance for Bad Backs to the Pre-date Tummy Tightener, in just 15 minutes a day you too can have the lithe and beautiful body of a dancer.
From the Author
In the 1980s, when exercise, body conditioning and aerobics were becoming popular, I realized that I didn’t have an interest in my life outside my work as a teacher. So I decided to attend fitness classes in the old dance centre in Covent Garden, and found that I enjoyed them. Eventually I began to do teacher training in body conditioning. Around this time the first Pilates studio opened in the Pineapple Dance Studio and I went to classes out of curiosity. Very quickly I realized that Pilates was the broadest exercise programme I had encountered; first, because it involved so many different complementary exercise techniques and, second, because its original basis in injury rehabilitation provided an intellectual basis behind the technique.
The system had been developed in the mid-1900s by German-born Joseph Pilates. Interned in Britain during the First World War, he devised a series of pulleys and weights to help rehabilitate injured soldiers. Using his exercise system, even hospitalised soldiers were able to prevent muscle wasting in healthy parts of their bodies. Back in Germany, the dancer and choreographer Rudolph van Laban incorporated Pilates’ techniques of stretching and warm up into his own dance method. In the 1920s, Joseph Pilates went to New York, set up a clinic and was soon helping injured ballet dancers. One of his greatest strengths was his ability to individualize exercise programmes, enabling dancers to work through their injuries, as well as increasing their stamina and strengthening their bodies.
Pilates is a preventative exercise system. By correcting bad posture, it prevents injuries from developing later on in life. The best therapy for dancers, it soon became a favourite of Hollywood starlets, and over the past decade, a younger generation of celebrities, from Madonna to Uma Thurman, is starting to take advantage of its streamlining and realignment techniques.
See all Product Description
Tag this product( What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
 |
||||
Customer Reviews
|
|
(