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Morning Pilates Workouts - Cathleen Murakami
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Morning Pilates Workouts
by Cathleen Murakami
NEW, 232 pages
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About Morning Pilates Workouts
A Pilates routine for every morning schedule! You already know that morning workouts are the best way to exercise regularly, manage weight, and energize your day. Morning Pilates Workouts makes it easy to maximize the benefits of your early-day routine no matter what your energy level is or how much time you have to spare.
Nine workout options include light, moderate, and high-effort routines lasting for 20, 40, and 60 minutes. Numerous poses, warm-up options, and breathing techniques allow you to reduce stress and improve flexibility. Along with nutrition advice and tips to improve your environment, Morning Pilates Workouts provides all you need to reinvigorate your morning routines.
Morning Pilates Workouts is part of the Morning Workout series, books designed to help you get in tune with both mind and body, stay motivated, and improve your morning exercise experience.
About Cathleen Murakami
Cathleen Murakami is the owner and director of SynergySystems Fitness Studio in Encinitas, California. A professional fitness instructor for more than 20 years, she has specialized in the Pilates approach since 1991. Murakami has been a Pilates certification course instructor for more than a decade, teaching extensive anatomy, biomechanics, and rehabilitation as they relate to this method. She has also produced The Total Fitness Workout series of four instructional videos and DVDs that teach introductory- to intermediate-level Pilates. Murakami is Gyrotonic level 1 certified and also holds certifications from American Council on Exercise (ACE), American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), Alan Herdman Pilates Studio of London, Physicalmind, and Long Beach Dance Conditioning. She has also studied yoga under Tim Miller and Erich Schiffman. Murakami resides in Encinitas, California.
Reviews of this book
“Cathleen Murakami has created the most systematic and progressive approach to Pilates mat work published in recent years!”
Ralph LaForge, MSc
Duke University Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Nutrition
“Finally, a book I can sincerely recommend to my clients and students. Cathie Murakami writes with an authentic, well-practiced, and meaningful perspective.”
Madeline Black
Master Teacher, Studio M and ITT Pilates
“Morning Pilates Workouts is expertly presented and well organized as a healthy morning serving of fitness. A refreshing concept by a brilliant teacher!”
Marie-José Blom-Lawrence
Owner of Long Beach Dance Conditioning
“Cathleen does an excellent job of laying out options for light, moderate, and intense Pilates workouts. This book will help anyone get going in the morning!”
Peter Davis and Kathie Davis
Cofounders of IDEA Health & Fitness Association
About Fitness
Physical fitness comprises two related concepts: general fitness (a state of health and well-being) and specific fitness (a task-oriented definition based on the ability to perform specific aspects of sports or occupations). Physical fitness is generally achieved through exercise.
In previous years, fitness was commonly defined as the capacity to carry out the day’s activities without undue fatigue. However, as automation increased leisure time, changes in lifestyles following the industrial revolution rendered this definition insufficient. These days, physical fitness is considered a measure of the body’s ability to function efficiently and effectively in work and leisure activities, to be healthy, to resist hypokinetic diseases, and to meet emergency situations.
Physical exercise is any bodily activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health or wellness. It is performed for various reasons. These include strengthening muscles and the cardiovascular system, honing athletic skills, weight loss or maintenance and for enjoyment. Frequent and regular physical exercise boosts the immune system, and helps prevent the "diseases of affluence" such as heart disease, cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes and obesity. It also improves mental health, helps prevent depression, helps to promote or maintain positive self-esteem, and can even augment an individual's sex appeal or body image Childhood obesity is a growing global concern and physical exercise may help decrease the effects of childhood obesity in developed countries.
Types of exercise: exercises are generally grouped into three types depending on the overall effect they have on the human body. Flexibility exercises, such as stretching, improve the range of motion of muscles and joints. Aerobic exercises, such as cycling, swimming, walking, skipping rope, running, hiking or playing tennis, focus on increasing cardiovascular endurance. Anaerobic exercises, such as weight training, functional training or sprinting, increase short-term muscle strength.
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