The Top Selling Pilates Books

One of the most popular books about Pilates is The Pilates Body: The Ultimate At-Home Guide to Strengthening, Lengthening and Toning Your Body--Without Machines, written by Brooke Siler and presented in a way that makes it easy to access and very informative. The author has credentials from training with the oldest protégé of Joseph Pilates himself, and creates a wonderfully organized book that helps offer tips and ways to build the perfect Pilates regimen for you. First, Siler discusses the ways to align your body and the ways to properly move your knees and neck and lower back and once she offers you some basics, she offers an array of over sixty wonderful exercises that can help you get started immediately.

Conveniently, the exercises are divided among beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels, so no matter where you fall, you will have a section that is perfect for you and offers you different exercises that will be neither too hard nor too easy. In addition to offering you inspiring new exercises, she also includes a side blurb called the Inside Scoop which gives you even more information, little hints and tips that she had picked up from trainers and fellow Pilates peers that will perfect your skill and give you an extra boost of motivation. This book is essential for anyone striving to have an excellent Pilates experience.

Another popular book about the subject is Pilates: Body in Motion by Alycea Ungaro. An author who owns Real Pilates and has written many other books on the topic, the author has experience with training many celebrities in this very field. Madonna, Uma Thurman, and Christy Turlington have all gotten their tips and skills from this author, who also presents her work at fitness seminars and is part of the board of advisors for Fitness Magazine. Knowing her business, she offers a book that gives you a very nice and clear step by step guide book that is great for someone who is wanting to work out without messy and heavy equipment or machinery. She also emphasizes how Pilates not only positively affects your entire body, but your whole mind, as well, giving you step by step work out exercises that are divided between beginner and advanced.

Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology, written by Joseph H. Pilates himself is another very popular book that gives you the basic origins of the entire exercise. Joseph Pilates details all of the instructions and poses and exercises so you know exactly what you are doing and what the point of it is. All of the exercises that he and Clara developed are there in the book and you will get an elaborated expression of the balanced Body and Mind that he emphasizes. Also, you will learn all about body mechanics and the correct posture so you can be sure that you are doing the exercises properly and without flaws or errors. You will be able to make sure that you are doing the right breathing exercises and procedures all in the name of balancing body and mind and bettering your overall fitness.