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| A Pilates' Primer : The Millennium Edition | 
 enlarge | Authors: Joseph Pilates, Judd Robbins
Brand: Pilates Premier Millennium Edition
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 39960
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 158
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.3
MPN: BK8053
ISBN: 1928564003
Dewey Decimal Number: 613
EAN: 9781928564003
ASIN: 1928564003
Publication Date: February 28, 2000
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Product Description
This edition combines two of Joseph Pilates published works in one volume. Contrology is the complete coordination of mind, body and spirit, wrote Joseph Pilates. In Return to Life, first published in 1945, Pilates defines the concept of Contrology with specific advice regarding posture, body mechanics, correct breathing, spinal flexibility and physical education. He demonstrates his original 34 mat exercises, which are now basic repertoire in Pilates training. Each exercise is demonstrated by Pilates himself at the age of 60 in a series of photos accompanied by detailed instructions. Your Health, originally published in 1934, explains Joseph Pilates early theories about health and fitness. Its a fascinating look into the mind of the man who revolutionized fitness, and whose teachings form the foundation of a discipline now embraced by fitness enthusiasts, health educators, rehabilitation specialists, and exercise trainers around the world. Black and white, paperback, 158 pages.
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 Great background on Pilates Theory November 16, 2008
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 August 28, 2008
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 August 17, 2008
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 tres precisement decrits. August 12, 2008
Ce livre est tres utile pour comprendre les mouvements pilates;
sur la page de gauche les photos de chaque etape de l'exercice;
sur la page de droite, les explications et recommandations pas a pas, par le createur de la methode lui-meme.
Le reste du livre est, a mon gout, une suite de redites sans interet.
Je mets quand meme 5 etoiles, pour l'interet global du livre.
Pilates in photos and his own words April 26, 2008
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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