Inner IDEA fitness site is loaded with great articles for us Pilates types. Here are three articles found in the archives that are just for the blokes.
Leslee Bender is the author of Modifications using the mini ball .
She too has written this little number, Men on mats.
THE COMPLETE BOOK OF PILATES FOR MEN
JULY 31, 2006
“For athletes, working stiffs (??), and men recovering from injuries, Lyon offers the first comprehensive exercise program of its kind. He walks you through forty “traditional mat” exercises and more than sixty “reformer on the mat” exercises — each one brilliantly illustrated — in an inspiring self-guided program that adapts to all experience levels and requires nothing more than floor space, an exercise mat, and the desire to look and feel your best. Using the Pilates method of engaging the strongest parts of the body, or the “powerhouse” (Joseph Pilates’s term for the abdominals, hips, lower back muscles, and buttocks), and integrating all other body parts from this core, Lyon’s program targets trouble spots for men and helps them achieve strong, lean, masculine physiques.”
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Pilates For Men: Fit For Sport, Fit For Life – Alan Herdman
Booko.com.au does all the homework for you in helping to research this book. Seems to have a wide reach on the retail front.
At $33.40 from two Aust sellers, that is a reasonable find.
“Alan Herdman studied at the London School of Contemporary Dance and was working as a teacher and dancer when, in the late 1960s, he was invited to New York to learn about the Joseph Pilates Method. There he worked intensively with Carola Trier and Bob Fitzgerald, two instructors who had been trained by Pilates himself. Although well-regarded amongst New York’s dance fraternity, Pilates was unknown in the UK at that time and Alan returned in 1970 to set up Britain’s first-ever Pilates studio.”


