Joseph Pilates
Joseph Pilates
Joseph Hubertus Pilateswas a German physical trainer notable for having invented and promoted the Pilates method of physical fitness...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth9 December 1883
CountryGermany
mind body spirit
With body, mind, and spirit functioning perfectly as a coordinated whole, what else could reasonably be expected other than an active, alert, disciplined person?
mind body pilates
The Pilates Method of Body Conditioning is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control of your body.
perfect suffering body
Because of poor posture, practically 95% of our population suffers from varying degrees of spinal curvature, not to mention more serious ailments. Good posture can be successfully acquired only when the entire mechanism of the body is under perfect control.
men greek mind
Man should bear in mind and ponder over the Greek admonition - Not Too Much, Not Too Little.
motivational fitness age
We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.
mother children lying
I learned...every part of the body; I would move each part as I memorized it. As a child, I would lie in the woods for hours, hiding and watching the animals move, how the mother taught the young.
men young columns
A man is as young as his spinal column.
mind body shelter
Moreover, such a body freed from nervous tension and over-fatigue is the ideal shelter provided by nature for housing a well-balanced mind that is always fully capable of successfully meeting all of the complex problems of modern living.
mind body
It is the mind itself which builds the body.
real exercise benefits
Before any real benefit can be derived from physical exercises, one must first learn how to breath properly. Our very life depends on it.
mind body shapes
It is the mind that shapes the body
mind body vitality
Contrology develops the body uniformly, corrects wrong postures, restores physical vitality, invigorates the mind, and elevates the spirit.
lying tired poison
It is better to be tired from physical exertion than to be fatigued by the 'poisons' generated by nervousness while lying awake.
horse heart cat
Contrology is not a system of haphazard exercises designed to produce only bulging muscles. ... Nor does Contrology err either by over-developed a few muscles at the expense of all others with resulting loss of grace and suppleness, or a sacrifice of the heart or lungs. Rather, it was conceived to limber and stretch muscles and ligaments so that your body will be as supple as that of a cat and not muscular like that of the body of a brewery-truck horse, or the muscle-bound body of the professional weight lifter you so much admire at the circus.