The Everything Pilates Book: The Ultimate Guide to Making Your Body Stronger, Leaner, and... by Amy Taylor Alpers, Rachel Taylor Segel and Lorna Gentry

Amy Taylor Alpers and Rachel Taylor Segel are sisters who established The Pilates Center in 1990 in Boulder, Colorado. Both Amy and Rachel were certified by Romana Kryzanowska, considered by many to be the heir to the classical tradition of Joseph Pilates. The Pilates Center is also an internationally renowned Teacher Training Certification school, offering the most rigorous and comprehensive program available. Lorna Gentry is a career writer and editor across a variety of health, technical, academic, social, and home management topics. She authored a series of online articles for the Learning Network on subjects including, vegetarianism, Zen philosophy, popular culture, and organic diet. She resides in Milton, Indiana.

Owner Reviews, Ratings, Comments and Criticism
Well, not really. I've been a student at Amy and Rachel's Pilates Center -- which is often called "the Harvard of Pilates" -- for four years, starting as I recovered from back injuries in a car crash. I love it, and I'm a heavy middle-aged man. It's true that this book concentrates on the philosophy of Pilates more than home practice, but then Pilates, good Pilates, is much more a thing of the mind than simply physical exercise. It's very nearly impossible to really learn to focus on, say, the illiopsoas muscles from a book. This book, combined with a good instructor, is the best.