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The Pilates Effect
Stacey Redfield
Sarah Holmes
其他書名
Heroes Behind the Revolution
出版
Indiana University Press
, 2019-09-01
主題
Health & Fitness / Exercise / Pilates
Business & Economics / Corporate & Business History
ISBN
1684350875
9781684350872
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ZhapDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
The true story behind this fitness phenomenon and its long, controversy-plagued road to popular success.
While millions today find the Pilates system helps to strengthen the core, improve posture, and recover from or prevent injuries and pain, Pilates has been clouded in controversy since the beginning. Its origin story is one of greed, ego, celebrities, and lies, with heated legal controversy that threatened the industry.
In
The Pilates Effect
, Stacey Redfield and Sarah Holmes reveal the hidden history of Pilates. From humble beginnings, Joseph Pilates founded the groundbreaking regimen in New York City and worked closely with his partner Clara to rehabilitate and renew dancers who had been injured or were aging. Although Joseph’s core strengthening regimen was touted as “fifty years ahead of [its] time,” finance and health issues plagued Joe and Clara’s business. A small and devoted group of followers, including Carola Trier, would fight to spread the practice that they felt gave them a second chance at life and rehabilitated their bodies and souls.
A fascinating and inspiring story of fitness in America,
The Pilates Effect
showcases the people and events that formed an iconic industry, and reveal how it offers positive change for everyday people regardless of gender, ethnicity, or background.