Pilates FAQ Book Selections

[Pam61]

Pilates FAQ Book Section

Highly Recommended Reading Materials

Alycea Ungaro
Pilates: Body in Motion (March 2001)
Brooke Siler
The Pilates Body: The Ultimate at Home Guide to Strengthening, Lengthening, and Toning your Body without Machines (March 2000)
The Pilates Body Kit: An Interactive Fitness Program to Strengthen, Lengthen and Tone. (March 2003) Includes 2 CD set

Books Listed Alphabetically by Author

Amy Taylor Alpers
The Everything Pilates Book: The Ultimate Guide to Making your Body Stronger, Leaner, and Healthier (Sept. 2002)
Lesley Ackland
Pilates Body Power (April 2001)
Lesley Ackland, Eva Gizowska
15 Minute Pilates: Body Maintenance to Make you Longer, Leaner and Stronger (Sept. 2001)
Lesley Ackland
10 Step Pilates: Reshape your Body and Transform your Life (Oct. 2001)
Pilates (Jan. 2002)
Pilates in a Box (March 2002)
Pilates for a Fabulous Body: The Complete Age Power Program (June 2002)
Pilates Over 50: Longer, Leaner, Stronger, Younger (July 2003)
Denise Austin
Pilates for Everybody: Strengthen, Lengthen, and Tone With this Complete 3-Week Body Makeover (Aug. 2002)
Trevor Blount, Eleanor McKenzie
Metodo Pilates, El
Roger Brignell
Pilates for Beginners (March 2002)
Marci Clark, Christine Romani-Rubi
The Pilates Reformer (Nov 2001)
Colleen Craig
Pilates on the Ball (Oct. 2001)
Abs on the Ball: A Dynamic Approach to Building Superb Abdominals (May 2003)
Pilates con Balon: El ejercicio mas popular del mundo usando un balon (May 2003)
Elisabeth Crawford
Balance on the Ball (April 2001)
Ann Crowther, Helena Petre
Total Pilates: The Unique System that Combines Pilates, Diet and Relaxation for Ultimate Health of Body and Mind Exercises, Recipes, and Meditation (April 2003)
Dianne Daniels
Power Pilates: A Total Body Workout for Strength and Stamina (May 2003)
Erika Dillman
The Little Pilates Book (July 2001)
Sean P. Gallagher, Romana Kryzanowska
The Pilates Method of Body Conditioning-An Introduction to the Core Exercises (March 1999)
Joseph H. Pilates Archive Collection: The Photographs, Writings, and Designs (Oct. 2000)
Blandine C. Germain
Anatomy of Movement (not Pilates specific, but a great book on Anatomy!)
Jillian Hassel, Gaiam, Jillian Hessel
Pilates Basics (May 2003)
Alan Herdman
Coffee-Break Pilates: 5 Minute Routines You Can Do Anywhere To Tone Your Body, Relieve Stress, and Boost Your Energy (May 2003)
Ellie Herman
Pilates for Dummies (May 2002)
Karon Karter
Complete Idiots’ Guide to the Pilates Method (Jan. 2001)
Emily Kelly
Emily Kelly’s Commonsense Pilates (Oct. 2000)
Pilates (June 2003)
Michael King
Puro Pilates (Jan. 2000)
Pilates Workbook: Illustrated Step-by-Step Guide to Matwork Technique (Aug. 2001)
Michael King, Yolande Green
Pilates for Pregnancy (July 2002)
Pilates Personal Trainer Powerhouse Abs Workout: Illustrated Step-by-Step Matwork Routine (Jan. 2003)
Michael King
Pilates Personal Trainer Thighs and Butt Workout: Illustrated Step-by-Step Matwork Routine (Jan. 2003)
Pilates the Complete Body System (Feb. 2003)
Pilates Personal Trainer Back Strengthening Workout: Illustrated Step-by-Step Matwork Routine (March 2003)
Pilates Personal Trainer: Getting Started with Stretching Workout: Illustrated Step-by-Step Matwork Routine (March 2003)
Jennifer Kries
Jennifer Kries’ Pilates Plus Method: The Unique Combination of Yoga, Dance, and Pilates
(Jan. 2000)
Patricia Lamond
Pilates (Nov. 2002)
Penelope Latey
Modern Pilates: The Step-by-Step at Home Guide to a Stronger Body (April 2002)
Karena Lineback
Osteopilates (May 2003)
Eleanor McKenzie
The Joseph H. Pilates Method at Home: A Balance, Shape, Strength, and Fitness Program
(Nov. 2000)
Allan Menezes
The Complete Guide to Joseph H. Pilates’ Techniques of Physical Conditioning (July 2000)
The Complete Guide to Joseph H. Pilates’ Techniques of Physical Conditioning: Applying the Principles of Body Control (July 2000) Spiral
Michael Miller
The Elements of Pilates and the Michael Miller View (May 2001)
Peak Pilates
Peak Pilates 2003 Calendar (June 2002)
PhysicalMind Institute
Anatomy of Pilates (Dec. 2001)
Joseph H. Pilates
Pilates’ Return to Life Through Contrology (Feb.1988)
Your Health: A Corrective System of Exercising that Revolutionizes the Entire Field of Physical Education (Feb. 1998)
The Complete Writings of Joseph H. Pilates: Return to Life Through Contrology and Your Health: The Authorized Editions (March 2000)
Dreas Reyneke
Ultimate Pilates: Achieve the Perfect Body Shape (Sept. 2002)
Judd Robbins
A Pilates’ Primer: The Millennium Edition (Feb. 2000)
Lynne Robinson, Gordon Thomson, Piers Chandler
Body Control: The Pilates Way (April 1998)
Lynne Robinson
Body Control: Using Techniques Developed by Joseph H. Pilates (May 1998)
Through the Day with Pilates: The Morning Exercises (Jan. 1999)
Through the Day with Pilates: Off to Sleep (Jan. 1999)
Lynne Robinson, Gordon Thomson
Pilates: The Way Forward (Oct. 1999)
Lynne Robinson, Helge Fisher, Jacqueline Knox, Gordon Thomson
Official Body Control Pilates Manual (Nov. 2000)
Lynne Robinson, Gerry Convy
Pilates Gym: The Balanced Workout (Dec. 2000)
The Workout (May 2002)
Lynne Robinson
The Body Control Pilates Pocket Traveller (Aug. 2002)
Lynne Robinson, Howard Napper
Intelligent Exercise with Pilates and Yoga (Aug. 2002)
Lynne Robinson
Body Control Pilates Back Book: A Training Program for the Prevention and Management of Back Pain (Sept. 2002)
Matthew Rochford, Malcolm Muirhead
Total Pilates (Total Series) (March 2003) Spiral
Suzanne Scott
Flow Motion: Pilates: Realize Your Potential and Discover Grace, Power, and Supple Movement with Pilates (April 2002)
Sally Searle, Cathy Meeus
Secrets of Pilates (Nov. 2001)
Anna Selby, Alan Herdman
Pilates Body Conditioning-A Program Based on the Techniques of Joseph Pilates (Oct. 2000)
Anna Selby
Pilates for Pregnancy: Gentle and Effective Techniques for Before and After Birth (May 2002)
Pilates for a Flat Stomach: Core Strength in 15 Minutes a Day (March 2003)
Banish Back Pain the Pilates Way (May 2003)
Brooke Siler
The Pilates Body: The Ultimate at Home Guide to Strengthening, Lengthening, and Toning your Body without Machines (March 2000)
El Metodo Pilates (2000)
The Pilates Body Kit: An Interactive Fitness Program to Strengthen, Lengthen and Tone. (March 2003) Includes 2 CD set
Louise Solomon
Yogalates: The Breakthru Workout That Combines the Best of Yoga and Pilates (March 2003)
Yoga-Pilates Fusion (June 2003)
Tia Stanmore
The Pilates Back Book: Heal Neck, Back, and Shoulder Pain with Easy Pilates Stretches
(July 2002)
Kellina Stewart
Pilates for Beginners (Oct. 2001)
Metodo Pilates en Casa (Aug. 2002)
Alycea Ungaro
Pilates: Body in Motion (March 2001)
Portable Pilates Book and CD Set (Dec. 2000)
Jonathan Urla
Yogilates: Intergrating Yoga and Pilates for Complete Fitness, Strength, and Flexibility
(Sept. 2002)
Yogilates: Intergrating Yoga and Pilates for Complete Fitness (Aug. 2003)
Luciano Villar, Alan Herdman, Anna Selby
Modelar el Cuerpo con el metodo Pilates (1999)
Mari Winsor
The Pilates Powerhouse (Oct. 1999)
The Pilates Powerhouse: The Perfect Method Of
Out of Print (Hardcover)
The Pilates Workout Journal: An Exercise Diary and Conditioning Guide (April 2001)
The Pilates Pregnancy: Maintaining Strength, Flexibility, and your Figure (Nov. 2001)
Complete Guide to Pilates, Yoga, and Meditation (Feb. 2003)
Beverly Witherington
The Pilates Back Book

[Pat58]

Thank you so much for posting this. I received my Pilates: Body in Motion book last night and have been absorbed in it. Pilates is making such a difference in my life that videos aren't fully cutting it any more. I want to learn all I can so that I can practice to my inner flow, and this book is going to be a huge help to me. I learned about it right here on VF, too!

Pat

[Lianne]

and I thought there were a lot of yoga books!

I have Brook Siler's book - now that I see it's recommended maybe I'll have to pull it out and have a look at it.
Another one I have that I don't see listed is the Stott Matwork Manual.


I have to say - I had to LOL back in December when I saw that Peak Pilates calendar in the stores. It looked like they were kind of going for the yoga journal calendar look with the outdoor settings, and I think it would have worked nicely if they had stuck to the mat exercises, but seeing those huge cadillacs and reformers in the middle of a wheat field, or on a cliff above the ocean just struck me as quite funny


Thanks for the list! ( have you ever looked into librarianship )

Lianne

[Margaret Mary]

This is fascinating! Thanks for the work, Pam. I agree that the Ungaro and Siler books dominate the field. Ungaro provides more detail in the photographic illustrations and Siler provides great detail in her instructions. Together, they are a very thorough intro to matwork. Of course, I can't say I've seen all the other titles you list...!!! It is extremely helpful to have them all written down here.
Margaret Mary

[WWWendy]

Thanks so much for this exhaustive list!

I'm posting so that everyone will hopefully notice that I've moved it to the General workout/fitness FAQ section of the forum. That seemed like a good place to keep it.

[Gilbey]

Wow. That is pretty much everything I have every seen in Pilates. I think there are a couple of books recently out about how to start and have a successful Pilates studio. I can't remember the name, but they were both very good and were advertised in IDEA Source magazine.
Thanks.-Cathy