A Pilates Body
We all see the pictures of slim, sleek and tall model - shaped people practicing Pilates in gorgeous studios when we look at Pilates books and surf the Web. We sigh and wish we could be like them.
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A Pilates Body
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Can Pilates help you with your game of golf?
With nearly 25 million people playing golf in the U.S. alone it is one of the most popular sports around today. Many golfers will pay a lot of money to gain an advantage over their golfing buddies.
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Pilates For Golf
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Pilates and Sciatica Part II
This is the second part of our article on sciatica. Please can I re-iterate that if you do get the symptoms of sciatica you MUST get checked out by a medical professional before embarking on any kind of exercise. The symptoms of sciatica are as follows:
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Pilates Sciatica Part II
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Do Pilates, Live longer. Part I
The HSE (Health and Safety Executive) defines stress as "the adverse reaction people have to excessive pressure or other types of demand placed on them."
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Do Pilates, Live longer. Part I
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Pilates - You can be sincerely wrong
Sometimes I see people exercising with such bad form that it makes me want to shoot myself. My lecturer Alan(Yoda) told me once that, when I qualified, I wouldn’t see dead people, but bad posture. He was right. Boy, was he right!
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Pilates - You can be sincerely wrong
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Pilates and Osteoporosis Part I
Ok, so what about Pilates and osteoporosis? It’s more a series of “Don’ts” from the look of it. If there’s any osteoporosis in the thoracic spine – the bit between the shoulderblades – over time the spine will crumple in on itself to form what is known as “Dowager’s Hump”.
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Pilates and Osteoporosis Part I
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Pilates and Osteoporosis Part III
And here is the last part of the article on osteoporosis. If you do have osteoporosis – and you MUST take your doctor’s advice before doing any exercises – here are a few “do’s” and “don’t’s”:
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Pilates and Osteoporosis Part III
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The T-Bow or TBow
Well I bet you've never heard of a T-Bow or Tbow. Am I right? Thought I was! Actually, neither had I until a few months ago. We were at a Fitness exhibition in London when I saw this - Thing. Looked like a small humpback bridge in bright orange with a blue exercise mat fixed to the convex side.
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The T-Bow
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Pilates - Weight loss tips Part Two
Here's some ideas for you about how to sort out your food problems: Try keeping a food diary for 3 days, including a weekend day. Everything you eat and drink - EVERYTHING - goes on that list, together with the quantity and the time of day.
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Pilates - Weight loss tips Part Two
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Can Pilates help me lose weight?
ANY exercise you do can help you lose weight! The usual formula applies; if you expend more energy than you consume, i.e. you have a calorie deficit, you will lose weight. This is an unchanging law of nature.
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Can Pilates Help With Weight Loss?
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Pilates Or Yoga?
I get a lot of clients in my classes who say to me "Pilates is very similar to Yoga, isn't it?" I generally diplomatically reply that Pilates is not a million miles away from Yoga. (Just about 500,000!)
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Pilates Or Yoga?
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Pilates and Sciatica Part I
Lots of people come to me with sciatica, and so I’ve been doing some research on the subject. It was really interesting, so I thought I’d write an brief article about it.
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Pilates Sciatica Part I
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Don't Build Your House On Sand
You wouldn’t build your house on sand would you? An unstable surface that is unable to support any structure built upon it.
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Pilates a Firm Foundation
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Do Pilates, Live longer. Part II
Sometimes we have been suffering from stress for so long that we almost get used to it. This is dangerous as we then regard the way we feel and act as “normal”, simply because we cannot remember being any other way.
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Do Pilates, Live longer. Part II
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Pilates A Tale Of Two Ladies
Once upon a time there were two ladies who had been friends for most of their lives. They met at primary school, went through the giggles and general insanity of the Teenage Hormone years together, kept the other one sane at their respective weddings and were godmothers to each others' various offspring.
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Pilates A Tale Of Two Ladies
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Pilates and Osteoporosis Part II
And here come the Do's regarding osteoporosis.
Try not to get it in the first place! We rarely think about the future when we're young too busy living. But, like our pension, our bones are something we should invest in before we start having problems with them.
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Pilates and Osteoporosis Part II
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Long Term Side Effects of Phentermine
I've just read a study dealing with appetite-suppressing drugs, principally one called Phentermine (that's the generic name; it's branded with other names such as Fastin).
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Long Term Side Effects of Phentermine
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Pilates - Weight loss tips Part One
"I eat like a bird - honestly!"
This is what many of my weight-loss clients tell me, while looking at me all wide-eyed and innocent. " I've no idea how I've put on so much weight. I must have a slow metabolism, surely. It's not my fault."
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Pilates - Weight loss tips Part One
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Pilates History
Joseph Pilates was born near Düsseldorf, Germany in 1880. Not a great deal is known about his childhood, but it would appear he was a frail and not very strong child, suffering from asthma, rickets and rheumatic fever.
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Pilates History
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