What made you decide to write a book about Pilates?

When I first decided to start a business and in particular a Pilates studio someone gave me the advice of writing a regular newsletter to send to clients and post online for people to read.  It would also showcase me as an “expert” in this area, so I started writing a monthly newsletter with on average 4 articles a month.

As the issues of the newsletter started accumulating, someone suggested I put them all together into a book and sell it online as an e-book.  That was quite a while ago.  I never got around to it then but now, after leaving the Pilates work, I have a little spare time and find it an interesting idea not only to put everything I wrote about Pilates into one document but to revisit an interesting chapter of life.

What was your motivation?

The motivation of another book on Pilates is because I have never seen a book about Pilates that talks about why do Pilates?  What is it good for?  Who can benefit from it?  The majority of Pilates books are just about the exercises, how to do them, fitness and anatomy.  I’m not an expert on any of that; I haven’t created a new style of Pilates, or some fitness guru or an anatomy expert.  There are experts out there who can write about that and they have.  What I have experience with is working with clients, real people, and helping meet their physical and indirectly their personal goals through Pilates.

What is the purpose of this book?

The purpose of this book is give the reader a feel for why Pilates is beneficial and why it’s good for them.

What is the purpose of this book?

I hope the reader learns a bit more about Pilates besides what they see and hear in the media.  I hope by the end of the book the reader is a bit more knowledgeable about Pilates and if they want to learn more about it or even try it, they have a better idea where to start or where to look.

I hope the reader learns a bit more about Pilates besides what they see and hear in the media.  I hope by the end of the book the reader is a bit more knowledgeable about Pilates and if they want to learn more about it or even try it, they have a better idea where to start or where to look.

What is the source for your book and what makes it unique?

I hope the reader learns a bit more about Pilates besides what they see and hear in the media.  I hope by the end of the book the reader is a bit more knowledgeable about Pilates and if they want to learn more about it or even try it, they have a better idea where to start or where to look.

Are there any people you would like to acknowledge for this book?

As much as I’d love to acknowledge every client and person who dropped by, called or even just emailed the studio inquiring about Pilates, but that would next to impossible.  But all these people are to be acknowledged.

How would you suggest someone read this book?

I tried to make this book as novel as possible in that rather be encyclopedic, I wanted it to be interesting and not dependent on any other part of the book.  I’ve tried to make the book like a conversation between someone inquiring about Pilates and an instructor or studio manager answering the phone and answering this potential client’s questions.  Each question is usually based on a different topic and the response to the question is one of the newsletter articles I wrote at some point.  You can pretty much open the book to any page and start reading.  It’s that easy.   There are a few appendices with information that I never really wrote an article about but that I felt were necessary for the sake of completeness.  Much of the information in the appendix was on the studio website.