The Wall the Weights and Pre-Pilates Exercises

Javier Pérez Pont, Esperanza Aparicio Romero

Beschreibung

These exercises are a series of fundamental core system to complete a session of Contrology. Wall exercises strengthen the spine, improve body alignment and relieve tension in the neck and shoulders.

How to achieve maximum well-being and achieve a stronger and more flexible body.
In this collection, Esperanza Aparicio Romero and Javier Pérez Pont, directors of the only center that imparts the original teachings of the Pilates teacher in Spain, show us, step by step and in a simple way, the keys to obtain the greatest benefits from this method, which considers the body, mind and spirit as a unit, and its main objective is to coordinate them with a view to achieving a stronger and more flexible body, as well as a more stylized figure.

Verfügbar seit: 17.09.2013.

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