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New studies reveal that most people who attempt diet regimens gain their weight back, and that exercise in itself does not guarantee weight loss. Such findings beg the question: why are current fitness and diet practices failing us? What on earth are we doing wrong?
Although regaining weight is often due to intricacies of the human metabolism, the message dominating popular media and workout methods is by no means helping. From The Ultra Masc Workout Dare: Are You Male Enough? to Six Steps From Stout to Starving: Skip Seconds and Sweat the Sweets to The Girly Girl Workout: Sexy and Strong Without Turning Off Your Man!, too many contemporary fitness books offer shame, self-loathing, and gendered fear-mongering as surefire fitness cure-alls. It’s enough to make you wonder: does the motivation for a healthful lifestyle only ever involve treating your body as the enemy? Is there no message for a life of fitness built on affirmation, moderation, and humor to inspire a balanced approach to health and a fulfilling life? Are we doomed to hate our bodies forever?
This question inspired Pilates instructor Gia Marakas to begin her blog, which in turn lead to Pilates for the People: Your Guide to Strength, Alignment, and Moxie from the Inside Out. In addition to providing easy-to-follow exercises that, performed with diligence, will transform your body, the book relates how the pillars of a Pilates practice can affect one’s mind and spirit, allowing the efficacy of the workout to take root. Written with the humor, patience, and honesty that have attracted clients – among them Mila Kunis, Laurence Fishburne, and Gina Torres – to Gia's practice over the past 20 years, Pilates for the People is smart and straight-shooting while still happy to traffic in the self-deprecating anecdote. After all, doesn’t humor best convey the absurd demands everyday life asks of us – including implementing a consistent workout routine? If the idea of Bridget Jones undergoing a spectacular turnaround in her health practices and deciding to narrate an exercise book sounds like your ideal reading experience, Pilates for the People is the book for you.
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