Change Your Mind. Change Your Body. Change Your Life.This book makes it easy for you to workout whether you are a beginner or advanced. This book has a beginners workout and a complete intermediate mat pilates workout routine. You are given modifications and variations to help make it work for your level. There are over 100 pictures to help guide you through the workout and ensure you are performing the movements correctly. |
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Contents
1 | |
Chapter 2 | 13 |
Chapter 3 | 17 |
Chapter 4 | 21 |
Chapter 5 | 23 |
Chapter 6 | 27 |
Chapter 7 | 35 |
Chapter 8 | 39 |
Spine Stretch | 120 |
Open Leg Rocker | 122 |
Flight | 124 |
Childs Pose | 125 |
Prone Hip Extension | 126 |
Saw | 128 |
Teaser I | 130 |
Teaser II | 132 |
Chapter 9 | 45 |
Breathing | 47 |
Concentration | 48 |
Fluidity or Flow | 49 |
Chapter 10 | 51 |
Pilates Breathing | 58 |
Breathing with movement | 62 |
Imprinting | 65 |
Imprinting with Arms Overhead | 66 |
Curlup | 67 |
Chapter 11 | 71 |
Modified Spinal Bridging | 72 |
Full Spinal Bridging | 74 |
Leg Sway | 76 |
Leg Bend and Slide | 77 |
Floating Head | 80 |
Modified Rolling Like a Ball | 82 |
Spine Arch and Curl | 84 |
Side stretch | 86 |
Spine Twist | 88 |
Spine Stretch | 90 |
Rolling Down | 91 |
Chapter 12 | 93 |
Basic Hundred | 94 |
Hundred | 96 |
Hundred | 98 |
Roll Down | 100 |
Roll Up | 101 |
Leg Circles | 103 |
Rolling Like a Ball | 106 |
Stomach Series | 108 |
Single Leg Stretch | 109 |
Single Leg Stretch | 110 |
Single Straight Leg Stretch | 112 |
Single Straight Leg Stretch | 113 |
Double Leg Stretch | 114 |
Double Leg Stretch | 115 |
Double Straight Leg Stretch | 116 |
Crisscross | 118 |
Advanced | 119 |
Teaser II | 133 |
Single Leg Kicks | 134 |
Childs Pose | 136 |
Double Leg Kicks | 138 |
Childs Pose | 140 |
Basic Spine Twist | 142 |
Spine Twist | 144 |
Leg Series | 146 |
Leg Kick Forward and Back | 147 |
Leg Lift Up and Down | 148 |
Bicycle | 150 |
Side Passe | 152 |
Grande Ronde De Jambe | 154 |
Leg Pull Front | 156 |
Leg Pull Back | 157 |
Seal | 158 |
Chapter 13 | 161 |
Teaser I | 162 |
Swimming | 164 |
Childs Pose | 165 |
Roll Over | 166 |
Shoulder Bridge | 168 |
Chapter 14 | 169 |
First Position | 170 |
Chapter 15 | 171 |
Rowing Front II | 174 |
Rowing Back | 176 |
Chapter 16 | 179 |
Chapter 17 | 185 |
10 Key Points to Weight Loss | 186 |
Snacks | 188 |
Protein shakes | 191 |
Breakfast | 193 |
Lunch | 198 |
Dinner | 202 |
Chapter 18 | 211 |
Chapter 19 | 219 |
References and resources | 228 |
Common terms and phrases
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Page iii - In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts : they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense...
Page iii - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius.
Page iii - A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Page iii - Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men [thought] but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from...