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
teaching progress truth-will-prevail
Time and progress are synonymous terms--nothing can stop either. Truth will prevail and that is why I know that my teachings will reach the masses and finally be adopted as universal.
men progress energy
Were man to devote as much time and energy to himself as he has devoted to that which man has produced, what astounding and unbelievable progress would be made; a progress eclipsing all he has so far successfully accomplished...
bent gray hold men miles stomach
Americans! They want to go 600 miles an hour, and they don't know how to walk! Look at them in the street. Bent over. Coughing! Young men with gray faces! Why can't they look at the animals? Look at a cat. Look at any animal. The only animal that doesn't hold its stomach in is the pig.
breathing lazy dying
Lazy breathing converts the lungs, literally and figuratively speaking, into a cemetery for the deposition of diseased, dying and dead germs as well as supplying an ideal haven for the multiplication of other harmful germs.
years fifty my-time
I'm fifty years ahead of my time,
breathe
Above all, learn how to breathe correctly.
sunset confusion sunrise
Daily, from sunrise to sunset, the radio, newspapers and magazines broadcast to the world how to maintain health, how to regain health... the conflicting information, expressive of the different opinions of these various health authorities, has proved to be nothing less than confusion...
civilization pilates physical-fitness
Civilization impairs physical fitness.
air pilates vacuums
You must squeeze every atom of impure air from lungs until they are almost as free of air as a vacuum.
perseverance effort firsts
The lungs cannot be completely deflated at first without considerable effort. With perseverance, however, the desired results can be accomplished and with increasing power, gradually and progressively develop the lungs to their maximum capacity.
water pilates doe
As a heavy rainstorm freshens the water of a sluggish or stagnant stream and whips it into immediate action, so does the Pilates Methods purify the bloodstream.
spine
You're only as old as your spine.
action should muscles
Ideally, our muscles should obey our will. Reasonably, our will should not be dominated by the reflex actions of our muscles.
breathing firsts lasts
Breathing is the first act of life, and the last.