Pilates Fitness Ball
Your Guide To Buying And Using Pilates Fitness Ball
About Colleen Craig Author
Colleen Craig is a Stott Pilates trainer and a writer. She received her B.A. (Creative Writing and English) from the University of British Columbia and then left Canada for over a decade. In 1991 she returned to Canada and moved to Toronto where she continued to write fiction and plays. Expanding on a decade of dance training, in 1997 she did her full Pilates Certification with Moira Merrithew (Stott International Training and Certification Centre, Toronto). Craig is the author of Pilates on the Ball (Healing Arts Press, 2001), Abs on the Ball (Healing Arts Press, 2003), and Strength Training on the Ball (Healing Arts Press, 2005), and the producer of the Pilates on the Ball DVD. The books are widely available in various languages. In 2008, her young adult fiction book, Afrika, was published by Tundra Books.
Book Description
Colleen Craig presents a best and unique method of Pilates Method and the Exercise Ball. He covers each chapter with essential steps and instructions to follow with photograph about Pilates methods and how to do them exactly and which makes the reader more interesting and anxious about next chapter while reading.
Pilates on the Ball incorporates a unique approach that covers both the areas of physical as well as spiritual health. The advantages and ways to protect yourself from injury while working on the ball has been discussed in the previous chapters. There are also certain emotional barriers that sets back people from initiating an exercise program.
Pilates on the Ball book makes the readers to think over themselves and their health and initiates to take necessary steps. It explains readers briefly about how the ball exercises should be carried out, breathing techniques, relaxation, overcoming back pain, steps to avoid back pain, deepening the abdominal, enhancing the muscles etc. These exercise ball makes body more flexible and this suits well for cardiovascular fitness. If you are down with injury or sprain there are chapters that covers how to overcome them.
Book Review From Customer
First, I must say that this is an awesome book. Each exercise is presented and explained in text and with an array of pictures. Enormous care was taken to layout these photographs in a practical and eye-pleasing fashion. The small drawings of muscles are quite instructive - in the style of Anatomy of Movement. Generous margins are available for notes and comments.
Colleen has been phenomenal in focusing on the primary principles of Pilates and sets a layout for transferring those principles to Exercise Ball. These Exercise Balls book explains in detail focusing only on the vital points that need to be performed with safe and secure.
My only complaints about the book are small. The book lacks an index. Given the meticulous editing/layout of the rest of the book, I fondly hope this gets addressed in a future revision. Also, the book doesn't focus on the well-respected Exercise Ball body of work that Paul Chek has created. Whether or not the author endorses that work, it deserves at least a mention in the "Resources" section of the book.
These books are well needed for all who work out on Exercising Ball. It is necessary to follow the steps and instruction to safeguard from injury and to utilize the advantages of them. They are marketed and are being sold in enormous quantity nowadays so stick to the instructions before proceeding with the exercises. Providing these students with a well-grounded introduction to Pilates makes it all the better and easier.
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