In Love with Pilates: Becoming an Elegant S-Shaped Woman (Includes VCD) (VCD)

Author: Zhao Xiaofang
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Publish Date: 2005-11-01
Features: Elegant, coming from the posture of believing you can change and the inner peace. An effective method for office workers to relieve muscle pain and inner stress; thoughtfully designed 11 types of Pilates exercise packages, lose weight where you want! Professional exercise guidance, safety tips, and Q&A to ensure you won’t get injured during exercise; specially designed nutritional meal plans, combining magical weight loss with delicious food; a carefully crafted Pilates comprehensive advanced course VCD, making you feel like you have a professional personal trainer. Whether you’re a beginner or already have experience, you can find exercises that progress from easy to difficult in this book, with detailed picture breakdowns of each movement, helping you effortlessly become a Pilates expert.
Awaken your deep muscles, stretch and lengthen your body lines, with just 5 classic movements every day to say goodbye to all aches and pains. Experience the beauty of exercise, train flexibility and balance, unleash your body’s potential, and relax your nerves. The pressure you feel all the time will disappear! This book is for fashionable women and beauty-loving girls who enjoy practicing Pilates at home. If a pose is particularly difficult for you, please avoid practicing it and instead carefully study the beginner’s routine we’ve written for you, read all the instructions, and pay close attention to the pictures. Once you’ve learned how to correctly perform this set of movements, your goal is to improve your technique and quality. Even if you’re an expert in other sports, don’t skip the beginner’s routine. Only when you can smoothly complete the entire routine should you move on to intermediate and advanced exercises. Otherwise, if your core strength isn’t strong enough, rashly attempting intermediate or suddenly doing 100 repetitions of your favorite movements—even trying advanced movements—can lead to mistakes, making you look clumsy and causing mild aches or, in severe cases, dizziness and nausea.
In this book, some posture explanations are shown on one side only. We hope you don’t forget to practice the other side symmetrically to promote balanced muscle development. For your safety and effective body protection, we recommend using a thicker mat during practice to avoid bumps and twists. The beginner’s routine is designed to maximize the benefits of Pilates. At least master this beginner’s routine 10 times before advancing to the intermediate routine.