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This Millenium Edition includes the only two published works of Joseph Pilates. Newly copyrighted, edited and revised, this book makes available in one volume all of his early Twentieth Century philosophies, principles, and theories about health and fitness, as well as the exercises, poses, and instructions fundamental to his exciting fitness program. You will also learn every single one of his original 34 mat exercises taught to his own students. Living testimony to the validity of his own teachings, Joseph Pilates shares in these writings his fundamental tenets of posture, body mechanics, correct breathing, spinal flexibility, physical education, and his law of natural exercises.
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Great background on Pilates Theory
I purchased this book because I wanted to learn more about the original pilates theory. The book was everything I hoped it would be. The exorcises show the original version and do not show the modified versions that are used in many of today's pilates classes but I was looking to better understand the original theory. Great book -highly recommend for this purpose!
A pilates Primer by Joseph pilates
outstanding book about joseph pilates and the pilates system. i use this text in a credit course for pilates mat at smith college
Respectfully decline
Yes, he was a pioneer in the world of health and fitness and I have enjoyed many personal gains because of my pilates practice--but this is truly a historical work to be taken as just that. I knew that this would be a "back to the birth" of pilates type of read, but I wasn't prepared for all the preaching involved in this book--clearly, he and I would not hang out. Despite the fact that he primarily deals with the physical fitness of business-MEN, with a bare mention of women's physicality; it is interesting to see the 34 excercises the way he intended, and there is something to be learned about how we can get more out of them, and new ways of experiencing them; but he even tells you the proper way to bathe and deal with the sleeping positions of babies in this book (?!). I kept reminding myself these are 1935 and 1945 renditions and it's representative of the time, but it's so antiquated he casually refers to one of his theories as "the nigger in the woodpile". Really? And I won't even get into his theories on how parents in their loving cruelty, disrupt and discourage proper physical development in their children which lead to undesirable conditions such as disease and masturbation.
Check this one out at the library, or buy it used and read it at dinner parties. There are only thousands of books about Pilates excersise that honor Mr. Pilates' fundamental contributions to fitness and his commitment to the ideal of the mind-body connection, buy one of those.
Mouvements Pilates très précisément décrits.
Ce livre est très utile pour comprendre les mouvements pilates;
sur la page de gauche les photos de chaque étape de l'exercice;
sur la page de droite, les explications et recommandations pas à pas, par le créateur de la méthode lui-même.
Le reste du livre est, à mon goût, une suite de redites sans intérêt.
Je mets quand même 5 étoiles, pour l'intérêt global du livre.
Pilates in photos and his own words
If you want pictures of Joseph Pilates doing a lot of his basic exercises and if you want a short explanation of his ideas in his own words, then this is worth the price. Nothing about his machine/s however. Just mat pilates.
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