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About the Author
BROOKE SILER is the owner of re:AB®, the renowned Manhattan Pilates studio. A true pioneer of this technique and schooled by Joseph Pilates’ original protégé, Siler lives in New York City with her husband and son.
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Welcome to Your Ultimate Pilates Body® Challenge!As many of you know, Pilates is one of those wonderful phenomena that has broken through the surface of the collective consciousness in the last few years to emerge as a "hot new trend." Fewer people realize that Pilates brings almost one hundred years of history with it.Created by Joseph H. Pilates to strengthen his frail and sickly body, Pilates was then translated to specific apparatus to help those unable to support their own body weight. It debuted in 1920s New York City as the lengthening, strengthening, and rehabilitation secret of stars, starlets, dancers, and acrobats and then all but disappeared for the next few decades, remaining known only to the small population interested in physical fitness. Today that demographic extends to include most everyone looking for strong, long, lean muscles, inspired either by the media culture or touched by an injury.Dressed up or dressed down, at the core of the Pilates movement today still beats the heart of the Pilates of yesteryear. Designed to use the art and science of muscle control--what Joseph Pilates termed Contrology--to help you achieve the body that looks good, feels good, and sustains you for a lifetime, Pilates is ageless, colorless, and genderless; and once incorporated into your subconscious, it marries the joy of movement with the efficiency of your most challenging workout.Correctly executed and mastered to the point of subconscious reaction, these exercises will reflect grace and balance in your routine activities. Contrology exercises build a sturdy body and sound mind capable of performing everyday tasks with ease and perfection. They also provide tremendous reserve energy for sports, recreation and emergencies.(Return to Life through Contrology, Joseph H. Pilates)Many of you are old friends, readers I know from The Pilates Body. I hope, too, many of you are new friends, readers who have picked up Your Ultimate Pilates Body Challenge because you are intrigued by expanding your awareness and your body's potential. And, finally, welcome to the reader who is not yet in shape--or who was in shape and is somehow, now, mysteriously, feeling as if he or she were living in someone else's body, because I can relate! Halfway through the writing of this book, I had a baby--and suddenly became my own audience. So, as I wrote and rewrote, read and reread this book's philosophy I also relived the work from the ground up.I began writing Your Ultimate Pilates Body Challenge before I was pregnant. Why? Because I was seeing what I felt was an alarming trend. Every day I had clients coming in and doing amazing work, then abandoning basic posture and alignment before they got to the sidewalk. I began to do some research. What I discovered was a twofold problem: Clients were stagnating within their solo workout sessions, and they weren't applying what they had learned in the studio when they were off the mat. Off the mat? Yes. Because Pilates is more than the exercises performed in a studio. It's about personal responsibility, active self-care, and feeling good as you move through your day and your life. More than a series of movements, it's a philosophy and a mind-set. Because, if your brain is not active and engaged and working, it won't matter how good you look; you won't feel your best. Without your conscious brain, your body is like any piece of equipment without an owner's manual. Usable, but too often a mystery.And, as I said, I understand that feeling of mystery! After having my beautiful baby, I discovered that even though I had been physically fit, and educated, my body had become a mystery. Although I knew intellectually where I should be lifting from and which muscles I should be engaging, the communication lines between my brain and my body appeared to have been disconnected. I needed to reread the owner's manual. So, Your Ultimate Pilates Body Challenge became that manual. Your Ultimate Pilates Body Challenge asks you to take a real look at your body--beyond the number that appears on the scale. Can you discover why you've hit a plateau within your workout? Why you always end up with knee pain? Why your neck feels strained at the end of the day?I want you to get moving--and have fun and be efficient while doing what you do. One thing I've learned as a new mom is that time is of the essence; I needed to get more out of less time. Your Ultimate Pilates Body Challenge is full of both new mat routines and ways to take what you've learned in the studio off the mat and into the world with Pilates Interval Training at the Gym, the Invisible Workout™, and Pilates for the Sports Minded.People need three things out of their fitness programs:* Strength* Flexibility* Cardiovascular conditioningPilates has all three! Too often, however, it is thought of as a system that is specific to dancers, rehabilitation, or meditation.I wrote Your Ultimate Pilates Body Challenge to help Pilates beat this rap, to change the perception that Pilates is limited to an arena outside your daily scope of living or working out. Like many of you, I am busy multitasking the many matters that make up my day-to-day life; and when I am ready, willing, and able to work out, it can't be so complicated as to put me off, so boring as to not challenge me, or so ineffectual as to waste my precious time. With those principles in mind, I put together the building blocks of Your Ultimate Pilates Body Challenge so that they can be stacked and moved around as best suit your needs.With the principles you'll find in Your Ultimate Pilates Body Challenge, those of you just beginning can create a safe, challenging, and efficient workout, and those of you who have become bored with your routine can infuse an old workout with renewed energy and purpose. Interval challenges are included to enhance your cardiovascular output and help burn more calories and dissolve fat.When you're in the gym, I'll teach you to use your Pilates principles to turn a stale workout routine into a fat-burning, muscle-producing, efficient use of your time. No more plugging away for hours on the same old course, stomping up the same hills, or hanging over the same handlebars.As a self-confessed gym junkie, I was compelled to create the Pilates-Conscious Cardio Circuit. Armed with the information in Your Ultimate Pilates Body Challenge, you will be able to complete a Pilates-aware circuit at the gym on a variety of machines that will burn more calories in less time. Once you have completed the circuit, you can hit your mat for a 10- to 20-minute Pilates mat routine while your heart is still pumping in the target zone. Fast, fun, and extremely challenging the Pilates-Conscious Cardio Circuit is a high-powered, superconscious workout that engages you both mentally and physically.For my fellow die-hard Pilates Matwork fans Your Ultimate Pilates Body Challenge is chock full of new movements, engaging visual and verbal metaphors, tips to progress or modify your matwork, and four fantastic body-specific programs. Adding Abs, Lean Lower Body, Perfecting Posture, and Finding Flexibility contain both the fun and the challenges you need to target your main areas of concern while still giving yourself a total-body workout.Athletes and sports fans alike will gain insight into their game from the information in the sports section. Here, I took the principles of Pilates and applied them to four of the sports so many of us know and love: tennis, golf, skiing, and snowboarding. As you begin to incorporate this information, you'll add depth and proficiency to your game. Every great athlete must combine artistry with technique, form with function. Pilates is steeped in the art and science of body movement/physiology and a few great visual cues or Pilates form tips can be the difference between good and great when it counts. Whatever your sport of choice is, the guidelines of this section apply.But what about the days when you can't get to the gym or hit the courts, the course, or the slopes? Unique to Your Ultimate Pilates Body Challenge is my Invisible Workout, which will serve to keep you tuned in and toned up throughout the day by using simple Pilates-conscious moves that you can execute anywhere and everywhere. Whether a handbag or a hand weight, a child or a chest press--the Invisible Workout will teach you to use the world around you as a tool for improving your fitness and physique.The Invisible Workout helps you incorporate basic Pilates principles into your daily activities, making the world your gym as well as your oyster. Before my son was born, I had the misguided assumption that I would snap back into shape with little to no effort at all. My Pilates practice served me incredibly well throughout the entire pregnancy, and there was no reason to believe anything but a miraculous recovery was in store. What a rude awakening to discover that my body had a different game plan. I am thankful I had Your Ultimate Pilates Body Challenge to work on. Every activity and movement in my daily life became another chance to regain my strength and control over my body. Although they seemed like baby steps at times, they added up to more.The Invisible Workout asks if you can learn to apply the fundamentals of Pilates to real-life situations. For everything from taking out the garbage to sinking a hole-in-one. What will it mean when you can? It will mean you will be working your body naturally throughout the entire day, instead of working your body inefficiently for 1 or 2 hours every other day at the gym. Becoming observant, training the body from the inside out, beginning to rely on its deepest muscles to sit and stand and walk properly, means not only carrying and lifting but running, skating, swimming . . . all your favorite activities begin to flow with ease and efficiency. One of the ways I know my work with clients is ...
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Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Harmony (December 27, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0767919823
ISBN-13: 978-0767919821
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7.5 x 0.5 x 9.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.5 out of 5 stars
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Siler is, without a doubt, one of the most credible names in pilates. Her description of posture, breathing and technique are exceptionally solid. On top of this, the book is a very easy read and has a lot of photos that help ensure that the user is properly practicing. I think it would be more useful if there was a DVD to accompany this because it would save all the time of having to go back to the book and would let the poses be seen in action to ensure they are executed to the end in the appropriate manner. There are a lot of clever ways to include pilates techniques in various practices. I also really appreciate the new routines. I have been practicing pilates for about 4 years and it has seriously eradicated my back pain. Part of that credit belong to Siler and this book. I recommend this to anyone who wants to try the discipline, but I would also recommend that they go to a pilates studio or buy a DVD to guarantee that the basic poses are correct while minimizing injury.
Pilates is my LIFE! I live and breath it despite the fact that I do not get to teach as often AND I lift weights more than I practice :OI also love Brooke, she is the BEST!
Author and Pilates instructor, Brooke Siler helps new and old practitioners of Pilates---a system of exercises focused on developing the core stabilizing muscles of the abdomen formulated by Joseph Pilates ---to revitalize their perhaps staid workout routine while incorporating the signature exercise principals learned and performed on the mat and on the various Pilates machinery into everyday life outside the Pilates studio.Making the same use of figurative drawings to help the student to better visualize the functionality of each exercise that she employs in her earlier book, "The Pilates Body," the author etches on the reader's memory just the right image---a spring, a straw, a weight, a pair of wings----that will establish a spontaneous association when the book is back on the shelf and the reader actually performs the exercise and needs the extra motivation while squeezing the correct muscles and maintaining that proper form. (i.e. Siler provides a drawing of a reclining woman with a bowling ball on her abs to demonstrate the need to anchor the torso to the ground while performing the `Double Straight Leg Stretch' and sketches an accordion bent straw over the bent back and tucked in abdomen necessary to initiate the `Spine Stretch Forward' and best represent the imagined articulation of the vertebrae.)Siler addresses five special pain situations like lower back pain, or neck and shoulder pain, and suggests equal and opposite motions to counteract their causes. In addition, while taking you to the virtual gym, she explains how important it is to use gym machines the correct way; engaging the abdominal powerhouse and employing her visualizations (or your own) debunks the usual `more is better' misconception and allows a `peak performance' that develops concentration, precision, control, breathing, and fluidity of motion.Maintaining that Pilates, if done with exaggerated breathing and in a contiguous sequence constitutes a more than adequate aerobic workout, Siler assembles a `tantalizing ten' base set workout upon which she builds different routines (Adding Abs, Lean Lower Body, Perfecting Posture, and Finding Flexibility) that will challenge and change you depending upon your specific goal. The bulk of the book analyzes each posture on a step by step basis with accompanying photographs and image motivators. Dos and Don'ts, modifications and progressions round out all the necessary information to perform each position optimally.In conclusion, Siler focuses on employing the Pilates mentality to standing, sitting, carrying, and lifting to safeguard against injury while raising the body's awareness of the efficient movement of arms and legs emanating from a more conscious powerhouse. She moves on to using Pilates to maximize your athletic ability in the sports arenas of golf, tennis, skiing, and snowboarding.As with any book on the subject, this one serves as a great companion to any good Pilates instructional video---not being familiar with Siler's DVD "The Pilates Body Kit", I will strongly recommend Jennifer Kries "The Method Precision Toning" to introduce the novice to the Pilates format and continuous sequence of positions. Unless the reader/participant has had several hours worth of training with a one-on-one qualified Pilates instructor, I will recommend this book only as an adjunct rather than a stand-alone tool to take Pilates out of the studio and into your everyday life.Diana F. Von Behrenreneofc
This book is the PhD level of Pilates. Brooke Siler doesn't dumb-down. Read, flag pages, highlight words, whatever you need to do to get going on this book and her other book too (The Pilates Body).I flagged the pages for 3 different days of workouts. So the top set of flags I did one day, the set of flags on the side of pages I did the second day, and set of flags on bottom of pages I do the third day. Then I rotate back to the 1st day of flags at the top of pages. Otherwise it would have seemed too grueling and arduous a workout. I can't be stuck on my living room floor for 8 hours a day. I gotta get this done in 45-minutes then get to work. Maybe you know what I mean. Pilates, like dance, could go on forever.This book provides the basis for a good workout, week after week, without getting bored. Anything that keeps you moving, no matter what level you use it at, is GOOD. You can use this at the beginner, intermediate or advanced level, and her pages indicate this too.
This book is really a sequel to her first book "The Pilates Body" although it could stand alone for people who are already familiar with the basics of Pilates.This book is unique in that it takes the principles of Pilates and applies them to working at home, in the gym, and in everyday life. The section on working at home includes incorporating exercise bands and other easily available equipment.The use of visualization and the emphasis on proper technique is another strong point. After looking at many books on Pilates, I have found those by Brooke Siler to be of the highest quality.
Great book - Brooke definitely knows what she is talking about
I recommend this book along with Siler's DVD. It offers information about Pilates practice. Lots of good advice for incorporating Pilates into daily activities and other "non-Pilates" exercise activities at the gym, at home and elsewhere. I think this book is at its best in combination with help from a trainer to really understand the exercises.
I checked it out from the public library one day and I wanted to purchase a copy of it. It is a great book. It has many different exercises to strengthen and tone your body whether you are at home, at the gym, at the office, or on the go. It includes simple things you can do, while performing everyday tasks.
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