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The About.com Readers' Choice Awards honor the best of the best as chosen by our readers. In the 2012 Pilates categories, nominations for best Pilates chairs, books, ab exercises, DVDs, and reformer for home are in. Only the products with the most nominations got to the final round. Now it's time to vote for Pilates winners.
On this page you can see all the Pilates categories at once, and click through to vote for winners. Voting will remain open until March 21, 2012 and you can vote one time per day. The Readers' Choice winners will be announced March 30, 2012.
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Finalists: Best Pilates Reformer for Home
In 2011 we voted for the best Pilates reformer over-all (we might do that again in a year or two). But we think a reformer for home use needs to be a specific category of its own. After all, reformers are expensive, even home reformers. So this year we asked our readers to nominate reformers just for home use. Two nominees took the top spots and now we need your votes to name a winner.And the nominees are:
- AeroPilates® Performer Plus - Stamina®
- SPX® - STOTT PILATES®
Finalists: Best "How to Do Pilates" Book not written by Joseph Pilates
We have two categories for Pilates books in the Readers' Choice Awards: Best How to Do Pilates and Best Book About Pilates. In the Best Book About Pilates category the nominations were overwhelmingly for one book so we don't need to have a vote off. The winner will be announced March 30, 2012. However, we have a rip-roaring contest between two top nominees for Best How to Do Pilates book.And the nominees are:
- Pilates by Rael Isacowitz
- Ageless Pilates by Christine Binnendyk
Finalists: Best Pilates Chair
What an exciting category this is. Pilates chairs are becoming more popular in general and we have 3 really great Pilates companies competing -- all with quality products. It's up to you, dear readers, if you have experience with one of the top nominated chairs and you like it, VOTE!And the nominees are:
- EXO® Chair - Balanced Body®
- Split-Pedal Stability Chair™ - STOTT PILATES®
- Wunda Chair - Gratz
Finalists: Best Pilates Ab Exercise
We need to know, right? Just which of the many amazing Pilates ab exercises is the very best? Now, we know that all Pilates exercises are ab exercises on some level,but some are just way more obvious about it, like our nominees. Both are frequently cited as being the best by fitness experts. And, the two top nominee exercises are related exercises -- similar, but oh so different.And the nominees are:
- Criss Cross
get instructions for criss cross - Single Leg Stretch
get instructions for single leg stretch
