Pilates on the Ball

Enhance your Pilates exercise program with this exercise ball workout. The Pilates exercises in this comprehensive book and workout DVD will help you tone abs and gain muscle using the Swiss ball.

This Pilates exercise book and workout DVD will teach you exercises that will help you maximize the use of the Swiss exercise ball with your clients in order to increase athletic performance, gain muscle, and tone the abs. In this Pilates exercise 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 Swiss exercise ball instructions, many users prefer to see the Pilates exercises demonstrated. The accompanying 45-minute Pilates workout DVD covers over 40 Pilates exercises, allowing you to see exactly how to position the body through each phase of the Pilates 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 workout DVD will help you build strong, flexible bodies and healthy minds in an innovative way.

Pilates on the Ball highlights:

• Includes both a Pilates exercise book and Pilates workout DVD

• Shows over 40 Pilates exercises in the 45-minute DVD

• Provides over 160 pictures detailing every Pilates exercise on the Swiss ball