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circles, hamstring stretches, ab curls
and torso twists, require extraordinary
back and abdominal strength to be
executed with precision.
Precision, though, is not the issue.
Even pregnant women can do a modi-
fied version of the method, Kries
insists.
Adherents of the method are as
diverse, she says, as venerable rocker
Bob Dylan, ice skater Kristi
Yamaguchi and actress Olympia
Dukakis.
The inspiration for Kries' method,
the late Joseph Pilates, was a nurse in
a World War I prisoner of war camp.
There, he experimented with attaching
springs to patients' beds to exercise
their muscles.
After the war, Pilates devised
spring-resistance equipment and
opened an exercise studio in New York
City in 1926. Dance legends Martha
Graham and George Balanchine later
embraced his techniques.
So did Kries.
She was an 18-year-old ballerina
when she tore a rotating muscle in the
buttocks (the tensor fasciae latae).
Prognosis: several months on the shelf.
"My doctor was concerned about
me walking properly again," Kries
said. "I went to the Pilates annex in
London for rehabilitation exercises. I
—\
was dancing again in a month, per-
forming before the queen of England
in the Pennsylvania Ballet.
"You need to move very gently and
slowly at first," she said. "Repetition
teaches what the muscles need to
know, and you can use your arms to
assist in all movements. Muscle mem-
ory will help you achieve the move-
inents.”
While abdominal strengthening is a s-\
major goal, the method isn't about size
so much as proportion.
"Your effort is from the inside out,"
Kries said. "Don't expect to get 'six-
pack' abs in two weeks. You're build-
ing the most profound layers of mus-
cle.
"The driving force behind it is
workinc, all the muscles together so
you're toning evenly, achieving a long,
lean line.
"I just finished a class on Long
Island. A few women accosted me
after the second session and said they
(I
felt taller and stronger."
Sounds like they were buying the
Kries message:
"Pull the navel to the spine.
Imagine someone is pulling the head (-1-\
off your shoulders and the feet off
your ankles. Breathe!"