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Pilates Practice Companion<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>is a beautiful book with tons of color photograhps.\u00a0 The book has several different sections featuring exercises at different levels: beginning, intermediate and advanced, as well as other chapters, such as “Maturing with Pilates.”\u00a0\u00a0It also has\u00a0two-page spreads with 15, 30 or 45-minute routines which would certainly simplify any home workout.\u00a0 Another\u00a0advantage is that it also shows photographs of “common faults.”\u00a0 When I first starting taking Pilates classes, the instructor\u00a0would come around and correct our form.\u00a0 Often I thought I was doing a move correctly, only to have her alter my position by what seemed like an inch or less, taking me from “oh, this is okay” to “ohmygosh this is hard!” \u00a0A final plus is that\u00a0the author, Alycea Ungaro, is well-known in her field, having\u00a0written several\u00a0books on the subject as well as\u00a0having trained many celebrity clients, such as Madonna.<\/p>\nI\u00a0don’t know about you, but the warmer weather we’ve been having has made me realize that “swimsuit season” will soon be upon us!\u00a0 If you’re also looking for some help or motivation in getting a little toned up before it gets really hot out there, check out these\u00a0titles on our[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[197,1538,917,1537],"class_list":["post-10648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-exercise","tag-flexibility","tag-healthy","tag-stretching"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-2LK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10648"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10692,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10648\/revisions\/10692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/fleibility.jpg?resize=176%2C247&ssl=1\")
Full Body Flexibilty\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/strong>by Jay Blahnick\u00a0is another great book whose message is enhanced with\u00a0wonderful photos.\u00a0\u00a0 Our staff is\u00a0now doing stretching exercises at work each day (just for a few minutes) but those interested in taking it to the next level would be well-served by this resource.\u00a0 One feature that’s particularly useful is that the stretches are\u00a0divided by different sections of the body.\u00a0 So, for example, if you had back or hip problems, you could concentrate on those stretches.\u00a0 I think this book will prove popular:\u00a0 I had it out at a public desk while working on this blog and a patron asked if she could check it out.\u00a0 Absolutely.\u00a0 That’s what we’re all about!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"