BookVerena Geweniger, Alexander Bohlander.
Summary: "Millions of people use Pilates training to improve health and fitness, or regain movement capability following injury or disease. Competent, professional support from physiotherapists, sports teachers and trainers is of vital importance for every client or patient. "Pilates: A teachers' manual“ provides you, as a professional, with fundamental teaching structures and practical guidelines. The concepts which characterized the traditional approach to Pilates are combined with the evolved methods of modern Pilates training, and backed up by current findings in sports science and kinesiology."--Publisher's website.
Contents:
1. Introduction
2. History
3. The Pilates concept
4. Pilates as preventative exercise: foundations
5. The exercises
6. Class formats
7. Therapeutic Pilates: fundamental prinicples
8. Therapeutic Pilates: applications
9. Therapeutic Pilates: clinical conditions/patient examples
10. Pilates and motor learning
11. General and specialized instruction
12. Formal basis for the implementation of Pilates training
Appendix.