Pilates

The Pilates technique teaches you how to use your body correctly. This practical guide to Pilates presents a series of step-by-step exercise routines that are designed to ease aches, improve mobility, release tension, strengthen and tone your abdomen, lift your buttocks, and banish back ache. A warm-up routine is included to focus the mind and prepare the body. When you can perform each movement in a level comfortably, you move on to the next level. The book also provides a self assessment to help you identify your strengths and weaknesses and to see how you improve as you work through the routines in the book.