Standing Pilates: Strengthen and Tone Your Body Wherever You Are
by Joan Breibart

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• ISBN13: 9780471566557
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Book Reviews of Standing Pilates: Strengthen and Tone Your Body Wherever You Are

Book Review: Interesting and unique approach to Pilates
Summary: 5 Stars

On first examining the book, I thought (mainly from the pictures) "that looks really easy, doesn't look like pilates and I can't see how thats going to do anything". However, once you start to actually read the instructions and try out the exercises you realise that they are actually rather good, and feel totally different to when you do pilates traditionally on the mat. I found this book makes you really aware of your body, how you hold it and the movement of your limbs in space. For example "the hundred" looks nothing like the hundred from the matwork.. but try it and suddenly you find you are engaging your core muscles and are working out your abs whilst standing up!

I think this book is a great companion to traditional Pilates matwork (though NOT a replacement for!) but used in conjunction I think it does add an additional element to Pilates that maybe hasn't been thought about before. Its certainly a book which is novel in its approach - and ofcourse means you can do a bit of "topping up" to your workout wherever you are during the day without having to get down on the floor (although some exercises do involve positions other than simply standing).

If you are really into pilates and have mastered the matwork - this is a book which will offer another dimension to the already familiar, if anything it makes you think about your body literally from a different angle!

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