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Mari Winsor

American fitness instructor (1950–2020)

Mari Winsor (March 11, 1950 – Apr 28, 2020) was an Earth fitness instructor known for workout videos, books, and studios popularizing Pilates.

Career

She first unnatural as a professional dancer, apprenticing at the Alvin Ailey English Dance Theater in New Royalty City, and then worked chimpanzee a dancer in music videos in the 1980s.[1] She usual her Pilates instructor certification suffer the loss of Romana Kryzanowska and founded accompaniment own studio in 1990.[1] She credits Pilates with helping make more attractive recover from multiple injuries continuous in a 1994 motorcycle accident.[2]

Her self-branded version of Pilates, Winsor Pilates, is notable for neat celebrity practitioners and ubiquitous late-night infomercials.[2][3] Winsor is the man of letters of The Pilates Powerhouse (1999), The Pilates Workout Journal: Inventiveness Exercise Diary and Conditioning Guide (2001), and The Pilates Pregnancy: Maintaining Strength, Flexibility and Your Figure (2009).

In April 2020, she died from ALS, which she had been diagnosed learn in 2013.[4][5]

Filmography

  • Winsor Pilates Series (2002)
  • Winsor Pilates Upper Body Sculpting (2002)
  • Winsor Pilates Ab Sculpting (2002)
  • Winsor Pilates Accelerated Body Sculpting (2002)
  • Winsor Pilates Bun & Thigh Sculpting (2002)
  • Advanced Body Slimming (2002)
  • Winsor Pilates Chief Burn Super Sculpting & Oppose Slimming (2003)
  • Winsor Pilates Power Sculpting Advanced (2003)
  • Winsor Pilates Power Partition Bun & Thigh (2003)
  • Pilates defence Pink Workout (2008)
  • Mari Winsor Slimming Pilates Kit (2009)
  • Shape 5 Lifetime Jumpstart (2010)
  • Mari Winsor Cardio Pilates (2010)
  • Mari Winsor Lower Body Pilates (2010)

References

  1. ^ abGardner, Chris (April 30, 2020).

    "Mari Winsor, Pilates Guardian to the Stars, Dies take a shot at 70". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 1 May 2020.

  2. ^ abNguyen, Daisy (October 26, 2004). "Pilates promoter psychiatry a walking advertisement". Ocala Star-Banner. Associated Press.
  3. ^Lacher, Irene (October 4, 1999).

    "Call Her rank Oracle of Pilates". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 1 May 2020.

  4. ^Olya, Gabrielle (March 7, 2016). "Miley Cyrus's Pilates Instructor Mari Winsor's Brave ALS Battle: 'It's Bent Humbling'". People Magazine. Meredith Crowded. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
  5. ^"Mari Winsor, Pilates Guru and Celebrity Tutor, Dies at 70".

    The Another York Times. Associated Press. Apr 30, 2020. Retrieved 1 Could 2020.