Title: Power-up Pilates.

Subtitle: Power and poise for daily life.

Author: Steve Shipside.

Format: Paperback.

Size: 210mm x 171mm.

ISBN: 1-904902-04-9.

Pages: 256.

Price: £12.99

Illustrations: c. 30 line drawings.

Publication Date: June 2004.

“Pilates? I’d always thought that was what ladies who lunch did before they lunched. Watered down yoga certainly had no place in my rigorous, self-disciplined programme for total fitness. But then I got the bug when I was introduced to Pilates by my physio after I had damaged my back. It’s a total work-out for body and mind, and now I’m fitter, more flexible and relaxed than I ever dreamt I could be. I just had an idea that I could make it work for me and then worked out how. Then I did it. Now I have developed a unique programme to help others get more out of their Pilates sessions.” Steve Shipside.

What its about.

The appeal of Pilates spans the spectrum from recovering rugby players to new age mystics. Here are 52 brilliant ideas to make you leaner, fitter, stronger, suppler. Steve’s Pilates starts with the meeting of belly buttons and back bones. Here’s how to get your daily dose of dorsal alignment.

Steve shows how you get the most out of your hard work by putting into practice the inside secrets of top Pilates practitioners. Here you’ll discover how to:

• Park your pelvis

• Breathe like a yogi - out with the bad air, in with the good air

• Enjoy a mat work masterclass – craft a cathedral, don’t knock up a shed

• Find your psoas (and know what to do with it when you have)

• Work a small ball– because sometimes the best things come in small packages

• Body roll the Yamuna way – a peek into the more exotic methods lurking on the fringes of Pilates

• Heighten body awareness. In Power-up Pilates, fitness specialist Steve Shipside shows you how to get the most out of your Pilates without hugging trees or spending too much time at the scrum machine.

The author.

Steve Shipside is a qualified Pilates and fitness instructor, and a member of the Register of Fitness Professionals. In his spare time he is also an Ironman triathlete, marathoner and ultrarunner. Before he was well-balanced he wasn’t. If Steve can do it, you can.