Pilates on the Ball: El Ejercicio Mas Popular del Mundo Usando Un Balon
Autor Colleen Craigen Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 feb 2003
- Exercises for all ability levels
- Shows how to practice Pilates techniques without expensive equipment
- Profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs for maximal learning
The Pilates Method of body conditioning aligns the body, builds long, lean muscles, and develops core abdominal strength. Many lifestyle and fitness magazines have named Pilates the hottest workout of the decade.
"Pilates on the Ball" merges the principles and exercises of the Pilates Method with the unique functions of the exercise ball. The ball intensifies athletic performance by increasing resistance and heightening awareness of how the body moves in space. Chapters detail the Pilates principles step by step, with movements intense enough to engage seasoned athletes, yet accessible enough to use as an everyday exercise routine.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780892816941
ISBN-10: 0892816945
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 203 x 253 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:Original
Editura: INNER TRADITIONS INTERNATIONAL
ISBN-10: 0892816945
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 203 x 253 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:Original
Editura: INNER TRADITIONS INTERNATIONAL
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PILATES / EJERCICIO Una entrenadora certificada en Pilates, Collen Craig nos ofrece una sintesis unica y emocionante del Metodo Pilates de acondicionamiento del cuerpo y el ejercicio con el balon suizo, proporcionado una manera nueva de bajo impacto, para estar en forma. Usando el balon de ejercicio, no hay necesidad de equipos caros o del tiempo en el estudio, que requiere el entrenamiento Pilates. Desarrollado a principios del siglo vigesimo por Joseph Pilates, consumado boxeador y gimnasta, el Metodo Pilates--llamada por muchas revistas de estilos de vida y acondicionamiento, como el ejercicio mas popular de la decada--alinea el cuerpo, construye musculos largos y delgados, y desarrolla un centro abdominal fuerte. El ejercicio con balon, usado por entrenadores olimpicos, bailarines, y atletas para aumentar el conocimiento del cuerpo y realzar la actuacion, proporciona una base perfecta para realizar los movimientos Pilates, que son elegantes y constructores de fuerza. A traves de todo su programa, Craig integra la mente y el cuerpo, ofreciendo tecnicas de respiracion y relajacion, que acompanan al trabajo con balon. Las historias personales y las citas inspiradoras incluidas en el texto, ilustran como Pilates puede mejorar su estilo de vida. Una agenda de actividades, a la mano, hace posible seguir los pasos a sus sesiones de ejercicios y revisar su progreso individual. Y, lo mas importante, instruciones detalladas paso a paso y mas de 300 fotografias definen los principios Pilates y desafian a todos los niveles de habilidad. Suficientemente intenso para conquistar a atletas, pero tan suave para calmar el dolor cronico y ayudar a sanar lesiones, Pilates con Balon construye, de una manera innovadora, cuerpos fuertes y flexibles y mentes saludables. COLLEEN CRAIG es una entrenadora certificada en Pilates y una escritora. Vive en Toronto y ensena sus metodos en talleres alrededor del mundo.
Notă biografică
Cuprins
Prefacio
Introducción
¿Cielo o infierno? Nuestra relación con la actividad física
La historia de Ingrid
El movimiento y usted
¿Quién obtiene el beneficio?
Movimiento con significado: el entrenamiento inteligente
Conexión cuerpo/mente
1. Una formidable sociedad
Pilates y el ejercicio con balón
Regresando a casa
¿Qué es Pilates - fisioterapia o acondicionamiento corporal?
Los principios básicos de Pilates
¿Por qué Pilates basado en el trabajo con balón?
El poder único del balón
Otros usos del balón
Antes de empezar
El balón adecuado para usted
Este es su camino
2. La respiración y los respiros
La historia de Joseph Pilates
Respiración posterior
Patrones de respiración como terapia
Los ejercicios de respiración
Observaciones de respiración • Respiración posterior • Respiración lateral
Respiros - refugio de disposición
Respiro uno • Respiro dos • Respiro tres
3. Ejercicios de postura
La historia de Elsie
Tipos de posturas
¿Cuál es la postura ideal?
Al revés: los músculos de postura
Los ejercicios de postura
Sentarse • Rebotar •Estiramiento de espina hacia delante • La sierra • Espalda redonda • CuerposEsfera - cambio lateral sentado • Giro de espina • Sirena
4. Los ejercicios abdominales
La historia de Edwin
La "Vida" y el dolor de espalda baja
La central de fuerza y el dolor de espalda baja
Centrarselos
Ejercicios abdominales
Ombligo-a-espina • Pequeños rizos abdominales • Rizos abdominales completos • CuerposEsfera-rizos abdominales superiores • La cascada • El giro en alto • Círculos con las piernas • Rodando como una pelota • Estiramiento sencillo de piernas • Estiramiento doble de piernas • Oblicuos • Voltereta
5. Las extensiones
Un domingo normal: mi historia
Estar balanceado, estar sano
Extensión contra flexión
Los ejercicios de extensión
El cisne • El clavado del cisne • La concha con el balón • Más extensiones • El saltamontes
6. Pilates con balón - trabajo de brazos y pies
La historia de Jenny
La debilidad física es una responsabilidad
De adentro a afuera: beneficios para hombres y mujeres
Resistencia = Entrenamiento de huesos
Precisión y ritmo
El trabajo de brazos
Abrazar un árbol • Abrir los hombros y giros de bíceps • Saludo • El remo • Mariposas y más • Trabajo de brazos
El trabajo de pies
Pies paralelos • Pequeño cambio • Dedo en media punta • CuerposEsfera: Salto de rana • Bajar y levantar • Cuclillas amplias
7. Restauración y reconstrucción
La historia de Susan
Los músculos sí recuerdan
Reducción del dolor
El Papel de los abdominales en el cuidado de la espalda
Problemas de hombros y cuello
El balón como un socio terapéutico
Los ejercicios de reconstrucción
Giros de cadera • Giros de cadera con balance • Puentes de hombro • Elevación de caderas •Doblar y estirar • De lado • Balance de balón • Lagartijas • La pica
8. El más simple de los placeres: el estiramiento
La historia de Jeff
Los beneficios del estiramiento
Los pormenores de los estiramientos seguros
Los ejercicios de estiramiento
Estiramiento de rana • Estiramiento de los hamstrings • Estiramiento de cadera • Estiramiento de cuello • La concha • Estiramientos laterales • Estiramientos de psoas • Estiramiento de hombros• El arco • Posición en cuclillas
9. El manejo del estrés y los ejercicios cardiovasculares
La historia de Roseanne
El estrés
Una visita a una clínica de relajación y otros liberadores de estrés
Los ejercicios cardiovasculares
Rebotar más • Rebotar con brazos • Golpecitos de pies • Puntapiés • Moverse alrededor del balón
Desestresarse con el balón: relajación
Posturas 1, 2 y 3
10. Pilates con balón para siempre
Viajes contra arribos: la historia de Lucy
Honre su propio ritmo
Acéptese a usted mismo como es el día de hoy
Tres sesiones de ejercicios
Sesión de ejercicio 1: balón restaurativo
Sesión de ejercicio 2: balón básico
Sesión de ejercicio 3: balón intermedio
Fuentes
Balón y video: Información de pedidos
Reconocimientos
Agenda de ejercicios
Extras
Introduction
Heaven or Hell?
Our Relationship to Physical Activity
Ingrid’s Story
On a recent trip to Africa I had tea with Ingrid, a seventy-year-old widow of a European diplomat. My friends and I sat outside on a veranda overlooking a sprawling garden wild with climbers, fig trees, and unswept leaves, an oasis where even in the dead of an African winter insects, birds, and flowers thrived. The sun was very sharp but falling fast as the tea arrived, colonial style, carried on a well-dressed tray by the domestic helper. My friends baited Ingrid to talk about her sojourns in the various African countries where she and her late husband had lived. “Sudan, Egypt, Congo, Kenya, Uganda,” she rattled off. She was my mother’s age yet had lived a life I could not imagine. Not a life of shopping malls, PTA meetings, or painting classes, but one of terrorist bombings, grenade attacks, luxury houses on stilts overlooking foreign oceans; a decadent life with too much drinking and cigarette smoking.
The sharp cold made us move inside. We sat on leather sofas in front of a massive stone fireplace surrounded by animal-skin carpets and bead-decorated stools. Every eye was on the sun-aged, blue-eyed diplomat’s wife, who smoothed a stray piece of hair back from her face in a mood reminiscent of a 1950s Hollywood starlet. Once in Uganda she had been roused from a bath at midnight by the sound of guerillas with AK-47s stomping around in the very next room. After Idi Amin’s fall, Ingrid slipped into the dictator’s ransacked home to help herself to a stool and a telephone. These stories would have had a historian or a journalist jumping. Yet what made my ears perk up was her announcement of how she had transformed the mammoth stone-filled field around her new home into a lush garden. Her husband, she explained, had died two years previously; soon after she had begun to “shrivel up,” and she needed to walk with a cane. One day she looked into a mirror, a crystal glass full of scotch nearby, to admit that she had again gone off the wagon and was old--a “skeleton” living in another radically transformed African country. Then a close friend had helped her to stop drinking. Sober and alone, she was forced to take control of her life.
“What did you do?” I asked.
The fire glowed in the grate behind her. “Physical work--like a man,” she said with a small smile. “I designed the garden. I ordered truckloads of dirt. I put in the two fishponds. Of course I had help. I had to get rid of the ‘sticks.’ These, what-you-call, canes, held me back from planting.”
“Now what do you do?” I asked. She had two gardeners who appeared to take care of much of the yard work.
“Swim aerobics,” she said. “I started eight months ago. I go every second day. The swim aerobics led to the mall walking.”
“Mall walking?”
“On the days I don’t swim, I walk. It’s very organized. True as God, they even time us with stopwatches. Like an American, I am,” she laughed. “Can you see me walking in circles inside a mall? But I love it.”
“You do?” exclaimed one of my friends. Like me he was no doubt trying to imagine Ingrid clad in sneakers and track clothing.
Ingrid nodded.
Behind the chair in which she sat Ingrid had arranged some fat purple-brown pods with other dried flowers. I knew these pods opened with a crack--a crack you could hear from a distance--before flinging out their seeds. One look at these wondrous pods and I was reminded of the transforming power of a new beginning.
“My life is saved,” Ingrid added after a moment. “My face is old. I am ashamed of my face. But my body, it sings.”
Movement and You
What is your relationship to physical activity? Have you despised exercise most of your life so that even the idea of a walk feels like a chore? Or do you crazily toss yourself from one activity to the next, from one new fitness phase to another? Perhaps you are one of the so-called weekend warriors, the people who do nothing physical all week, then at the first opportunity toss themselves into frenzied, extended exercise--pedaling all day on an ill-tuned bicycle or swimming nonstop across a lake. Or maybe you are relatively fit. You are disciplined enough to slip in three sessions a week at your local Y or health club, but you are terribly bored of the same old routine. In frustration you find yourself on the floor, your feet hooked under a heavy bar, forcing yourself to do dozens and dozens of sit-ups. Yet in spite of your efforts you do not achieve the results you want.
Throughout my life I have had the opportunity to live on different continents and learn from different peoples and cultures. In many countries I have witnessed the same erratic relationship to exercise that we North Americans have. In Russia I have seen people worn to the bone by the strains of daily life, as dog-tired as the stray mutts who sleep outside the metro stations; yet these same people will fire off a set of push-ups in their cramped apartments. They may not exercise again for months, even years. In South Africa I have seen activists pull on torn sneakers to jog ten kilometers and then smoke their lungs out at meetings afterward. In North America we use our cars to drive two blocks to a corner store, then we sit atop stationary bikes, often in front of the television, unaware of our posture or technique. In spite of an extensive background in dance movement and ballet, even I cut myself off from my body for twenty years, believing that intellectual pursuits were “noble” and physical ones “superficial.”
Heaven or Hell?
Our Relationship to Physical Activity
Ingrid’s Story
On a recent trip to Africa I had tea with Ingrid, a seventy-year-old widow of a European diplomat. My friends and I sat outside on a veranda overlooking a sprawling garden wild with climbers, fig trees, and unswept leaves, an oasis where even in the dead of an African winter insects, birds, and flowers thrived. The sun was very sharp but falling fast as the tea arrived, colonial style, carried on a well-dressed tray by the domestic helper. My friends baited Ingrid to talk about her sojourns in the various African countries where she and her late husband had lived. “Sudan, Egypt, Congo, Kenya, Uganda,” she rattled off. She was my mother’s age yet had lived a life I could not imagine. Not a life of shopping malls, PTA meetings, or painting classes, but one of terrorist bombings, grenade attacks, luxury houses on stilts overlooking foreign oceans; a decadent life with too much drinking and cigarette smoking.
The sharp cold made us move inside. We sat on leather sofas in front of a massive stone fireplace surrounded by animal-skin carpets and bead-decorated stools. Every eye was on the sun-aged, blue-eyed diplomat’s wife, who smoothed a stray piece of hair back from her face in a mood reminiscent of a 1950s Hollywood starlet. Once in Uganda she had been roused from a bath at midnight by the sound of guerillas with AK-47s stomping around in the very next room. After Idi Amin’s fall, Ingrid slipped into the dictator’s ransacked home to help herself to a stool and a telephone. These stories would have had a historian or a journalist jumping. Yet what made my ears perk up was her announcement of how she had transformed the mammoth stone-filled field around her new home into a lush garden. Her husband, she explained, had died two years previously; soon after she had begun to “shrivel up,” and she needed to walk with a cane. One day she looked into a mirror, a crystal glass full of scotch nearby, to admit that she had again gone off the wagon and was old--a “skeleton” living in another radically transformed African country. Then a close friend had helped her to stop drinking. Sober and alone, she was forced to take control of her life.
“What did you do?” I asked.
The fire glowed in the grate behind her. “Physical work--like a man,” she said with a small smile. “I designed the garden. I ordered truckloads of dirt. I put in the two fishponds. Of course I had help. I had to get rid of the ‘sticks.’ These, what-you-call, canes, held me back from planting.”
“Now what do you do?” I asked. She had two gardeners who appeared to take care of much of the yard work.
“Swim aerobics,” she said. “I started eight months ago. I go every second day. The swim aerobics led to the mall walking.”
“Mall walking?”
“On the days I don’t swim, I walk. It’s very organized. True as God, they even time us with stopwatches. Like an American, I am,” she laughed. “Can you see me walking in circles inside a mall? But I love it.”
“You do?” exclaimed one of my friends. Like me he was no doubt trying to imagine Ingrid clad in sneakers and track clothing.
Ingrid nodded.
Behind the chair in which she sat Ingrid had arranged some fat purple-brown pods with other dried flowers. I knew these pods opened with a crack--a crack you could hear from a distance--before flinging out their seeds. One look at these wondrous pods and I was reminded of the transforming power of a new beginning.
“My life is saved,” Ingrid added after a moment. “My face is old. I am ashamed of my face. But my body, it sings.”
Movement and You
What is your relationship to physical activity? Have you despised exercise most of your life so that even the idea of a walk feels like a chore? Or do you crazily toss yourself from one activity to the next, from one new fitness phase to another? Perhaps you are one of the so-called weekend warriors, the people who do nothing physical all week, then at the first opportunity toss themselves into frenzied, extended exercise--pedaling all day on an ill-tuned bicycle or swimming nonstop across a lake. Or maybe you are relatively fit. You are disciplined enough to slip in three sessions a week at your local Y or health club, but you are terribly bored of the same old routine. In frustration you find yourself on the floor, your feet hooked under a heavy bar, forcing yourself to do dozens and dozens of sit-ups. Yet in spite of your efforts you do not achieve the results you want.
Throughout my life I have had the opportunity to live on different continents and learn from different peoples and cultures. In many countries I have witnessed the same erratic relationship to exercise that we North Americans have. In Russia I have seen people worn to the bone by the strains of daily life, as dog-tired as the stray mutts who sleep outside the metro stations; yet these same people will fire off a set of push-ups in their cramped apartments. They may not exercise again for months, even years. In South Africa I have seen activists pull on torn sneakers to jog ten kilometers and then smoke their lungs out at meetings afterward. In North America we use our cars to drive two blocks to a corner store, then we sit atop stationary bikes, often in front of the television, unaware of our posture or technique. In spite of an extensive background in dance movement and ballet, even I cut myself off from my body for twenty years, believing that intellectual pursuits were “noble” and physical ones “superficial.”
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Features a 45-minute DVD and the bestselling book Pilates on the Ball.
Features a 45-minute DVD and the bestselling book Pilates on the Ball.