The Women's Health Big Book of Pilates: The Essential Guide to Total Body Fitness

Brooke Siler has created a phenomenal pilates reference for all levels and abilties! This truly is THE ESSENTIAL guide to Pilates. With clear pictures of the exercises, detailed, yet easy to follow explanations of every move and suggested workouts for all levels, The Big Book of Pilates is a must have for any exerciser. I love that I can easily work the exercises into my at-home regimen, but also appreciate the history of Pilates and explanation of the apparatus that I would work on in a Pilates studio. I would highly recommend this book as one of the best books written about Pilates- it is fun to read, easy to understand and inspirational!

Great book with great information!

Great book! Love the different workouts in it!

Well organized, good pics, which I've been tearing out and posting on my wall in our exercise room. Wish we could go online and create customized workouts then order in poster format.

Absolutely excellent book with gorgeous photos of positions. Extremely comprehensive for mat based pilates exercises. Some of the newer modifications of pilates reformer and other equipment based movements that show up in recent videos do not necessarily appear here, but she does show many modifications of exercises standing or using hand weights, exercise balls, and the like. The book is definitely true to Joseph Pilate's original mat work, but takes it a bit further for those with special areas of concern. I wanted a traditional book version of this (and DO recommend a traditional book copy to all because to the photos and ability to so quickly flip through in that format). But, I will undoubtedly be purchasing the e-book version as well, for travel... Fort those who have Siler's original book, "The Pilates Body", I would still highly recommend this book, which is far more expansive and again, the photos!

Great book. Help me a lot exercise myself.

As a long time Pilates instructor, one of the biggest challenges is getting clients to practice at home on their own, and to understand the method. This book has clear, concise instructions and beautiful pictures. Brooke truly has a gift for her true voice coming through in her language. I have purchased her first book The Pilates Body for many clients and family members because it was so good for beginners....and back when it was first published Pilates was not very accessible so it helped many people. This book takes it to the next level, with information about all the apparatus used in Pilates that even I as an instructor can still benefit from. I will recommend it to my clients as well as use it to myself to get ideas and inspiration for teaching. I highly recommend this book for students and teachers, or even if you are just curious about Pilates and the benefits. Buy it now!

Excellent pictures excellent description I love it!

I am a big fan of Miss Silers. I practice Pilates since 20 years and used her first book until it fell apart. I own quite a few of Pilates books but I always return to the ones of Miss Silers. This book is increedibly well done. The instructions are short and they make sense! The reader will find a multitude of exercises for every purpose, every level, every age. Good photographs too. Thank you!

Perfect, just what I wanted. Informative in a pleasant, concise way with lots of colourful pictures.

Love this book. Provides great photos and instructions for hundreds of exercises. Also provides mat sequences to follow

Brooke Siler siempre hace libros interesantes. Este contiene muchísima información útil tanto para principiantes como para alumnos más avanzados. ¡Ojo! La edición en castellano no está completa. Desconozco el porqué, pero la primera parte en la que se habla de los aparatos de Gratz se ha esfumado de esa edición.

Really nicely done book, and I've got a few Pilates books that I honestly like but this book is great. Chapters laid out well, instructions and photographs well done. Helpful if you're watching YouTube or cannot attend classes. Well worth the money.