Pilates on the Ball

Description

Enhance your Pilates exercise program with this exercise ball workout. The exercises in this comprehensive book and Pilates DVD workout will help your clients tone their abs and build long, lean muscles using the Swiss ball.

This Pilates exercise book and DVD workout will teach you Swiss ball exercises that will help you maximize the use of the exercise ball with your clients in order to increase athletic performance; build long, lean muscles; and tone the abdominal core. In this book, certified Pilates instructor Colleen Craig combines the effectiveness of the Pilates workout with the unique capabilities of the Swiss exercise ball, providing an innovative and low-impact way to stay fit. While Pilates on the Ball contains over 160 photographs and detailed step-by-step ball exercise instructions, many users prefer to see the Pilates exercises demonstrated. The accompanying 45-minute DVD workout covers over 40 Pilates exercises allowing you to see exactly how to position the body throughout each phase of the exercise program, to see what pitfalls can occur and how to easily prevent them. It also provides vocal cues for explaining each step of the Swiss ball exercise. Intense enough to engage seasoned athletes, yet gentle enough to alleviate chronic pain and help heal injuries, this Pilates exercise program and Pilates DVD workout will help you build strong, flexible bodies and healthy minds in an innovative way.