Lynne Robinson - Pilates Express: Get Maximum Results in Minimum Time

LYNNE ROBINSON is one of the worlds most respected Pilates teachers. She is the founder of Body Control Pilates, which is seen as an international benchmark for safe and effective teaching. Her bestselling books include The Pilates Bible, Pilates for Lifeand Pilates for Pregnancy. She has also produced highly popular DVDs. In demand internationally, she frequently lectures at conferences throughout the world and has taught Pilates in countries as varied as the US, Japan, South Africa, Thailand and Australia.

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SARAH CLENNELL trained with the Rambert Ballet School and the London School of Contemporary Dance. She trained as a fitness instructor before becoming a teacher trainer for aerobics teachers. She discovered Pilates after a back injury. Qualifying as a Body Control Pilates teacher in 1999, Sarah now teaches on our international teacher training team. In addition to Pilates and aerobics, she has taught Latin and Ballroom Dance, swimming and personal training, giving her 40 years of experience teaching movement!

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In this book, we hope to show you that enjoying good health and staying fit does not require hours in the gym. You can achieve this by moving more and, importantly, moving well, throughout your day.

The Pilates Express programme has around 40 mini workouts, each designed for a specific part of your day: morning, midday and evening. The exercises, many brand new to Pilates, will make a huge difference to how you look and how you feel. But, perhaps most important of all, they will help you to stay healthy. We aim to restore balance in your body, making it resilient, flexible and strong enough, physically, mentally and emotionally, to tackle whatever life has in store.

Probably the single biggest obstacle to exercising regularly is lack of time. Setting aside an hour for a class may seem impossible, but ten minutes? That is surely doable. We show you simple ways to include more physical activity in your day, without having to schedule exercise sessions. Perfect for those of you who are intention rich, time poor! Our goal is to use the mini workouts to reset and rebalance your body. And, because balance in your body requires balance in your life, well also look at small lifestyle changes that deliver big results.

The Pilates Express programme will improve your strength and flexibility, toning every inch, streamlining your body. The exercises work on your posture, core stability and improve the efficiency of your breathing. These are things that Pilates is already famous for, but this time we are going further, deeper. Were also going to look at simple ways to ensure your body can cope with stress better, explore ways to reduce chronic inflammation (a major cause of many diseases) and help your immune system function optimally.

If lack of time is not your obstacle to exercising, maybe lack of motivation is. Perhaps, at the end of the day, the couch and a box set beckons more than your exercise mat? However, if you ever needed a reason to start moving more, the recent pandemic was it! COVID-19 proved to be a mild illness for most, but for far too many, tragically, it was fatal. We have learnt the hard way about the importance of both being fit and a healthy weight. This did not guarantee survival, but it helped the odds. Many of us realised that we are not invincible, that we need to invest time now in our health to ensure we are fit enough to face any future challenges or illnesses.

Some elements of our lives are out of our control, yet others we can control. You can take steps to improve your health and wellbeing. How and when you exercise is within your control, so lets make sure youre doing it right.