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WORK TITLE: Pilates for Living
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PSEUDONYM(S): Cole, Harriet
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WEBSITE: http://www.harriangell.com/
CITY: Marlow, Buckinghamshire
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COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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RESEARCHER NOTES: Harriet Cole is her birth name. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3190134/I-offered-olive-branches-hit-Arfur-Daley-star-George-Cole-hadn-t-spoken-estranged-daughter-45-YEARS-death.html
PERSONAL
Daughter of George Cole and Eileen Moore; married; children: one son.
EDUCATION:Graduated from Open University.
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CAREER
Writer, educator, and pilates trainer. Conducts writers’ workshops in Marlow, England; teaches mat pilates. Previously worked as an actor in television and theater, then as a writer/trainer for Weight Watchers UK.
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Running.
WRITINGS
Contributor to periodicals, including Outdoor Fitness, Best magazine, Dogs Weekly, Parenting magazine, Sixtyplussurfers, and Running Fitness. Author of the blog In the Pink of Life.
SIDELIGHTS
Harri Angell has been writing her entire life. The daughter of British actors, Angell also became an actor before turning to writing and fitness training. Angell, who studied literature and creative writing in college, is the author of two books focusing on the exercise regimen known as pilates. Her first book is titled Pilates for Runners: Everything You Need to Start Using Pilates to Improve Your Running—Get Stronger, More Flexible, Avoid Injury and Improve Your Performance.
In her second book, Pilates for Living: Get Stronger, Fitter and Healthier for an Active Later Life, Angell focuses on how pilates can help people age better. Angell explains that practicing pilates can help people not just live longer but also better in terms of health, from lower blood pressure to reduced aches and pains. “Whatever your age, mat Pilates will improve your strength, coordination, mobility, flexibility, breathing, balance, concentration and general wellbeing,” Angell writes in the introduction to Pilates for Living. Going on to comment on the benefits of pilates for posture, Angell notes that improved posture “will not only prevent aches and pains but also lift your spirits as you learn to stand up straighter, lengthen through the spine and embrace, head on, those advancing years.”
Pilates for Living includes a range of exercises that vary according to an individual’s personal fitness level and abilities. Angell begins with a brief history of pilates and its founder Joseph Pilates, who began life as a sickly child but became an athlete and a body builder. She goes on to provide an overview of how pilates can help improve general health and then examines the basic equipment needed. Before delving into more difficult specific exercises, Angell provides what she calls a “Starter Pack” chapter that helps people get started who may be concerned about their ability to do pilates. Angell provides instructions on postural alignment that can be incorporated even before starting to do specific pilate exercises.
As for the exercises, each one begins with a discussion of how the exercises provide specific benefits to people as they age. Photographs of men and women performing the exercises are included. The book also features numerous motivational case studies featuring both men and women at different stages of life. Also featured are instructions from fitness and health professionals concerning how to alleviate specific conditions. The book is interspersed with quotes from the career of Joseph Pilates. “The book’s straightforward approach and organization make starting on a Pilates routine seem entirely feasible,” wrote a Publishers Weekly contributor.
BIOCRIT
BOOKS
Angell, Harri, Pilates for Living: Get Stronger, Fitter and Healthier for an Active Later Life, Bloomsbury Sport (London, England), 2018.
PERIODICALS
Publishers Weekly, May 21, 2018, review of Pilates for Living, p. 68.
ONLINE
Harri Angell website, http://www.harriangell.com (October 12, 2018).
Welcome
Harri has been writing 'stuff’ all her life. After a varied career mainly as an actor in television and theatre, she then worked as a writer/trainer for Weight Watchers UK. Now she splits her time between writing, teaching Mat Pilates and running. She is passionate about helping people to keep fit and age successfully.
‘Pilates for Runners’ was a book she had been meaning to write forever. It was published by Bloomsbury Sport in April 2017 and ‘Pilates for Living’ was published by Bloomsbury Sport in April 2018. Currently, she is working on two other non-fiction titles.
Harri has a Diploma in Literature and Creative Writing from the Open University and is studying (part time) for an MA in Novel Writing.
Together with a colleague she holds popular Writers' Workshops in her home town of Marlow.
In the past Harri has also written for various magazines which include: Outdoor Fitness, BEST magazine, Dogs Weekly, Parenting magazine, Sixtyplussurfers and Running Fitness. She has featured in Women’s Running, Running Fitness magazine, The Huffington Post, Trail Running magazine, Athletics Weekly and Health and Fitness magazine.
She writes an irregular Blog 'In The Pink of Life', short stories, flash fiction and is determined to get her novel published when she finally finishes it. Harri lives with her husband, son and two mad Border Terriers in Marlow, Bucks.
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Pilates for Living: Get Stronger, Fitter and Healthier for an Active Later Life
Publishers Weekly. 265.21 (May 21, 2018): p68.
Copyright: COPYRIGHT 2018 PWxyz, LLC
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Full Text:
Pilates for Living: Get Stronger, Fitter and Healthier for an Active Later Life
Harri Angell. Bloomsbury, $20 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-4729-4778-9
Writing with the over-50 crowd in mind, Pilates instructor Angeli share a useful guide to slowing down the aging process and preparing a foundation for a healthy future. Following a brief biography of founder Joseph Pilates (frail and sickly as a child, in adulthood he became a bodybuilder and athlete while developing his fitness program), Angeli leads into the basics of a beginning Pilates routine, from breathing to balance. To illustrate poses, she employs photographs of fit men and women from the book's target age group, beginning with warm-up poses, easy bending, and mobility exercises. Throughout the book are professional advice sidebars from an osteopath and a physician, as well as testimonials from Pilates students of varied ages, from 49 to 70, describing their positive results ("My back is stronger--I used to have lower back pain and I rarely do now"). The book's straightforward approach and organization make starting on a Pilates routine seem entirely feasible, and the 20-minute routines, color-coded for beginners, intermediate, and advanced students, enhance that message. "Pilates has changed people's lives for the better," Angeli says, and self-motivating readers may find this book to be their first, best step toward that change. (June)
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
"Pilates for Living: Get Stronger, Fitter and Healthier for an Active Later Life." Publishers Weekly, 21 May 2018, p. 68. General OneFile, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A541012671/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=25f3dde7. Accessed 30 Sept. 2018.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A541012671