{"id":383,"date":"2009-07-15T21:08:52","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T01:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=383"},"modified":"2010-03-21T13:40:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T17:40:32","slug":"nonfiction-joseph-pilates-and-judd-robbins-a-pilates-primer-the-millennium-edition-ashland-oh-atlas-books-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/nonfiction-joseph-pilates-and-judd-robbins-a-pilates-primer-the-millennium-edition-ashland-oh-atlas-books-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Pilates and Judd Robbins, A Pilates&#8217; Primer: The Millennium Edition (Ashland, OH: Atlas Books, 2000)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1928564003?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=alcoholreviewsco&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1928564003\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Pilates\" src=\"http:\/\/www.atlasbooks.com\/marktplc\/images\/b01747primer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Good, But Often Hard to Comprehend<\/strong>, by Kevin R. Kosar, October 2, 2006<\/p>\n<p>There are oodles of books out there that claim to teach the reader &#8220;pilates&#8221; of one sort or another. I was drawn to this text because it was a re-publication of an original manual by Joseph Pilates.<\/p>\n<p>On the bright side, the book has many exercises that, in my limited experience, would appear to build core strength and which make me feel very good.<\/p>\n<p>The limitation of this manual is, though, that the instructions on how to carry out the exercises frequently are very hard to follow. Often I read the steps of an exercise and found myself confounded. &#8220;What- when am I suppose to inhale and in which direction am I to move my right leg?&#8221; Despite repeatedly studying the instructions and the few accompanying photographs, I still cannot understand how I am to carry out an exercise.<\/p>\n<p>It would have been nice if the folks who re-published this book included an appendix that provided clarifications. Alas, instead, they provided only a brief and not especially informative introduction. Too bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good, But Often Hard to Comprehend, by Kevin R. Kosar, October 2, 2006 There are oodles of books out there that claim to teach the reader &#8220;pilates&#8221; of one sort or another. I was drawn to this text because it was a re-publication of an original manual by Joseph Pilates. On the bright side, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[73],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews-nonfiction","tag-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-6b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}