Explaining the fundamental Eight Principles through core programmes, this volume provides 'Pilates prescriptions' for your specific needs. It serves as a useful reference for various issues ranging from back pains, posture problems to prevention of common sports injuries and training your children to use their bodies properly.

A self-help manual focusing on back pain prevention and rehabilitation using the Pilates body conditioning system. It explains how the back works, why backache occurs, the different types of back pain, when to seek professional help, lifestyle tips for prevention and exercises to promote flexibility and hold the correct posture.

Presents a regime that will help put you back in control of your weight. This book helps you to burn calories while also helping you to a flatter stomach and more defined waist.

A guide to looking good - top to toe, inside and out, mind and body. Built up of chapters that focus on a specific part of the body - from the face down to the feet - it combines classic and new Body Control Pilates exercises with beauty advice, health information and nutritional guidance to tackle problem areas and help enhance features.

Conceived in response to frequent questions about whether Pilates and yoga are compatible, this manual highlights how they are grounded in a similar awareness of the body. Forty exercises demonstrate common ground wherever possible.

Whether you want to cut out light, screen a view or filter the sun, this book offers a fresh modern approach to window treatments. Full of ideas and practical information on curtains, blinds, screens and shutters, there are also 20 original, yet simple projects, each with detailed instructions.

This sourcebook of paint effects should be useful for home decorators. It contains over 50 recipes for different techniques, ranging from sponging and colour-washing to ageing, gilding and stencilling; information on tools and equipment; and projects for walls, floors and simple furniture.

Lynne Robinson and Body Control Pilates have brought Joseph Pilates' original teachings to a vast international readership, creating exercise programmes that are famed for their clarity, effectiveness and safety.

Includes special sections on Pilates for new mothers and children, and people suffering from problems such as osteoarthritis, back pain and knee injuries as well as Pilates at the gym and the workplace, and for the performing arts and sport. This book explains why this exercise method has gone from cult status to a part of our modern lifestyle.

Presents exercises specifically designed to tone and shape your body in four weeks. This book includes Body Control exercises and helps practice Pilates regularly.

A manual for the layperson, which introduces Dr Joseph Pilates' exercise regimen for improving the tone and alignment of the body. 40 exercises with programmed combinations are detailed with photographs and muscle or joint explanations.

Offers a programme for the intermediate and advanced Pilates devotee, which heralds a return to Joseph Pilates' classical matwork. This title consists of exercises which are physically demanding presented in layman's language, with watchpoints, warnings and advice on the timing of the breath, crucial to the core stability of Pilates.

This text presents a whole new range of exercises to get you fit and keep you supple, as well as safely working to remedy your body's problems.

Explaining the fundamental Eight Principles through balanced core programmes, this book come presents Pilates prescriptions useful for your specific needs. It deals with topics ranging from back pains, posture problems to prevention of common sports injuries and training your children to use their bodies properly.

This is a guide to using the Body Control Pilates method for a safe and effective workout at the gym. This book shows how to use your body correctly, how to use your muscles for toning and how balanced workouts will re-educate your body's alignment for an impact on your physique.

The approach to exercise and bodywork in this book combines both the Pilates Method and the Alexander Technique. The exercise programme aims to make the reader re-examine the way in which the body is used and explore pathways from the mind to the body.

The main focus of this book is on exercises to do before, during and after a long journey. These mini-workouts are designed to stretch out tight muscles, mobilize joints, relax parts of the body prone to tension, improve circulation and keep the back supple and strong.

Features the Body Control Pilates system, and a balanced diet in a 28-day plan for weight control. This work contains over fifteen exercises and incorporates various cooking trends. The nutritious recipes include various fresh ingredients. The 28 day programme helps retrain your body.