Here are some photo's and some quotes written by Joseph Pilates...
This is Joseph Pilates in his late 70's performing a perfect squat!
"I must be right. Never an aspirin. Never injured a day in my life. The whole country, the whole world, should be doing my exercises. They'd be happier." - Joseph Hubertus Pilates, in 1965, age 86
The Pilates Method: "my work is 50 years ahead of its time".
Here's Joe at the age of 59!
"A few well-designed movements, properly performed in a balanced sequence, are worth hours of doing sloppy callisthenics or forced contortion."
"Patience and persistence are vital qualities in the ultimate successful accomplishment of any worthwhile endeavor."
Pilates aged 82!
"the attainment and maintenance of a uniformly developed body with a sound mind and the ability to perform life's daily activities with zest and ease."
..."I invented all these machines. Began back in Germany, was there until 1925 used to exercise rheumatic patients. I thought, why use My strength? So I made a machine to do it for me. Look, you see it resists your movements in just the right way so those inner muscles really have to work against it. That way you can concentrate on movement. You must always do it slowly and smoothly. Then your whole body is in it."
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