Not just another Pilates book, Innovations in Pilates; Matwork for Health and Wellbeing will show you how to effectively develop one of Joseph Pilates original goals, how to become more flexible. By first breaking down and then teaching you the flexibility requirements of the classical Matwork, IIP Matwork will enable you to succeed safely at all of those difficult Pilates exercises that have you stuck because they require significant flexibility to perform. If your goal is just to improve your flexibility irrespective of how it may improve your Pilates, this book is for you too This book...

This Pilates reformer stretching book/class is for anyone (not just men ) who are stiff in all the wrong places There is one stretch for each of the major muscles groups of the body. Each stretch has been deliberately selected for "any body" who can't touch their toes, who sit at their desk all day, who has any kind of stress, back or neck pain, or who wakes up in the morning feeling less like a well-oiled machine and more like the Tin-man (or Tin-person). Trialed over a 15-year period with thousands of students in his "Stiffies" Pilates classes, Anthony Lett selected this beginners class...