15 minutes pilates - Lesley Ackland

Foreword by Islay McEwan, Physiotherapist Birmingham Royal Ballet. Pilates has been a recent phenomenon with book sales to match its explosion in popularity. This book will capitalise on its growing popularity

Many fitness enthusiasts have found that working out in gyms have made their bodies less streamlined and elegant - the muscle they have built leads to a squarer, stockier look. Pilates is different.

Traditionally popular with ballet dancers and models, it gives you a long, lean physique, better posture and general health. It is soft exercise, combining low-impact but high energy movements with realignment of posture.

Lesley Ackland (who has more than 200 weekly clients at the famous Pineapple Studios in Covent Garden) has developed a 'body maintenance' programme which helps a wide range of problems including back pain, scoliosis, RSI, arthritis, pregnancy and stress problems.

All in a cleverly-devised 15 minute a day programme which you can tailor to suit your own needs.

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