Pilates for Life: The most straightforward guide to achieving the body you want at home
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Enjoy the mental and physical benefits of exercise using pilates and dance from the comfort of your home, with this straightforward and engaging guide Have you always dreamed of strong, lean muscles? Fantastic posture? What about a calm, relaxed and mindful attitude? These are all possible with the magic of pilates. Let Dame Darcy Bussell guide you right from the start as you enjoy the benefits of pilates from your own home. And who better to introduce you to this fabulous form of exercise than a woman who has practised Pilates as part of her professional training ever since the beginning of her incredible ballet career? With Darcy's essential guide, you will learn: - Basics of pilates - Warm ups and warm downs - Abdominal strengthening and stretching - Sitting, kneeling and standing postures and sequences - Balancing and lifting exercises - Main programme and mini programme options Darcey is passionate about Pilates and her introduction to the core programme is the easiest, clearest and most encouraging available. Beautifully designed throughout and immensely practical, it is the perfect combination of aspirational and achievable. Ballet dancer and Strictly Come Dancing judge Darcey Bussell quite simply loves Pilates, and anyone who reads Pilates for Life will too. As Darcy herself says, 'It's really important not to associate fitness as a chore. It's got to be entertaining' (BBC Radio 2 with Chris Evans). 'In ten sessions you will feel the difference, in twenty you will see the difference, and in thirty you will have a whole new body' Joseph H. Pilates Review: Easy Book To Read Lots Of Exercises with Pictires - Brought this as a prescent for someone, hope they enjoy the book easy to read and lots of pictures that show, the right movements to stretch. Review: Everyone needs Pilates 🧘🏻♀️ - Lovely book, well written. Covers origin and ongoing benefits of Pilates 🧘🏻♀️
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| Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 136 Reviews |
N**A
Easy Book To Read Lots Of Exercises with Pictires
Brought this as a prescent for someone, hope they enjoy the book easy to read and lots of pictures that show, the right movements to stretch.
S**K
Everyone needs Pilates 🧘🏻♀️
Lovely book, well written. Covers origin and ongoing benefits of Pilates 🧘🏻♀️
M**S
Simple to follow with detailed pictures
Got second hand for a good price
H**1
You don't need both as each give good clear images and descriptions of the exercises
I have both the book and DVD and rate both highly. You don't need both as each give good clear images and descriptions of the exercises. I really enjoyed the DVD, the exercise routine seems quite easy but you certainly know you've done it the next day!! The choice of music might not be to everyones liking but I find it very relaxing. The book covers the same exercises and information regarding the benefits of each one as the DVD, it doesn't of course have the music, but the images, descriptions and layout are very good and if you are a book lover, its a lovely book to have.
M**S
A clear and precise book with lovely explanatory photographs.
The Pilates class that I haven taken has stopped, so I thought that I would buy a book, in order to continue. Most of the books on offer were extremely, and unnecessarily complicated with drawings and diagrams that were hard to decifer. This book is an excellent book for beginners and people who have been doing Pilates for a while. The exercises are helpfully grouped together and the pictures are brilliant, there is no difficulty in understanding the exercises at all, and therefore absolutely no excuse not to get stuck in!
L**A
Just what I needed
I’ve been interested in Pilates for a while, but YouTube videos were too easy and Les Mills trial didn’t satisfy me either as although I followed the movements, I still was not sure if my deep muscles were working as they should, as the flow was fast and no explanations were given. So I browsed through reviews, found Darcy Bussell Pilates and bought both DVD and book, as I want to be able to take my exercise mat into the garden in summertime and just follow the book sequence. I have really enjoyed following the DVD, as clear explanations are given, moves are shown and I do like seeing her muscles working, as in some previous Pilates video that actually wracked my DVD player (came from the US, I think) the presenter was moving so effortlessly that I thought oh no, this isn’t for me. This DVD is right for me and I am doing the mini program daily, the full program when I have more time.
L**H
Great do it yourself dvd.
Easy to follow poses and exercises. She's such an inspiration.
H**T
This book is OK but it basically is the DVD ...
This book is OK but it basically is the DVD but in a book, I thought there would be more added in the book.
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