Clippinger Karen S. - Pilates Anatomy

SECOND EDITION

Pilates

ANATOMY

Rael Isacowitz

Karen Clippinger

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Isacowitz, Rael, 1955- author. | Clippinger, Karen S., author.

Title: Pilates anatomy / Rael Isacowitz, Karen Clippinger.

Description: Second edition. | Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, [2020] | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019005198 (print) | LCCN 2019005668 (ebook) | ISBN 9781492592532 (epub) | ISBN 9781492567714 (PDF) | ISBN 9781492567707 (print)

Subjects: LCSH: Pilates method.

Classification: LCC RA781.4 (ebook) | LCC RA781.4 .I74 2020 (print) | DDC 613.7/192--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019005198

ISBN: 978-1-4925-6770-7 (print)

Copyright 2020, 2011 by Rael Isacowitz and Karen Clippinger

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To Joseph and Clara Pilates and the many dedicated teachers who have kept their vision alive

CONTENTS

PREFACE

As the authors of Pilates Anatomy, we were extremely encouraged by the response to the first edition. It reached across the globe after its release in 2011, being translated into multiple languages. Now as we embark on the second edition, we hope for an equally positive response. For this edition, we added valuable information, focusing on the inclusion of expanded modifications and progressions. Modifications make the exercises more accessible and should be used as stepping stones to performing the original version of the exercise safely. Progressions add appropriate difficulty and challenge to the exercise. Progressions also can be valuable stepping stones, in many cases helping to develop specific skills necessary for doing a more advanced, but related, Pilates exercise.

In the past two decades, a profound evolution of Pilates has occurred. The Pilates industry seemed to reach a tipping point (a point of critical mass) in the mid- to late 1990s, whereby it morphed from a little-known form of exercise with a devout but small following that included dancers, singers, circus performers, and actors to a mainstream fitness regimen practiced in many households. It suddenly started appearing in Hollywood movies and television commercials, in cartoons and comedy shows, and on late-night television. It became synonymous with going to Starbucks and indulging in a low-fat triple-shot soy latte (no whipped cream please!).

How this happened, why this happened, and to what this phenomenon can be attributed remain somewhat of an enigma. However, few can dispute that the growth of active participants in the United States from approximately 1.7 million in 2000 to approximately 10.6 million in 2006 is a phenomenon. Worldwide participation has also grown exponentially, and continues to grow, while the United States has seen a small decline to around 9.05 million in 2017. Of course, all growth comes with growing pains, and the Pilates industry is no exception. The accelerated education, which is often a part of rapid growth, has certainly taken hold in Pilates. Although we favor a more comprehensive approach, the accelerated approach has been one part of the expansion of Pilates that has led to a multitude of positive outcomes, such as Pilates filtering into many new arenas including fitness clubs, training programs for athletes, and medical facilities.

Understanding Pilates requires some knowledge of its history. Joseph Pilates was born on December 9, 1883, near Dsseldorf, Germany. He died on October 9, 1967. Unfortunately he didnt live to see the realization of his dreams. He adamantly believed that his approach to total well-being should be embraced by the masses and certainly by health care professionals. He hoped that contrology, as he called his system, would be taught in schools throughout the United States. He intended his method to be a mainstream form of conditioning for men, and initially it was practiced more by men, although it is largely women who have kept the flame alive all these years.

It is fortunate that several early students of Mr. Pilates and his wife, Clara, whom he met on his second trip to the United States in 1926 and who became his lifelong partner in his work, survived them and became exceptional teachers in their own right. These first-generation Pilates teachers, taught directly by Joseph and Clara Pilates, have played a profound role in the evolution of the Pilates industry. Rael Isacowitz has had the distinct privilege of studying with several members of this unique group over the past 40 years. Ms. Kathleen Stanford Grant must be singled out as having a particularly powerful effect on this authors development and teaching style.