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Not only is health a normal condition, but it is our duty not only to attain it but to maintain it.
— Joseph Pilates
A few well-designed movements, properly performed in a balanced sequence, are worth hours of doing sloppy calisthenics or forced contortion.
— Joseph Pilates
You must squeeze every atom of impure air from lungs until they are almost as free of air as a vacuum.
— Joseph Pilates
Man should bear in mind and ponder over the Greek admonition - Not Too Much, Not Too Little.
— Joseph Pilates
Never slouch as doing so compresses the lungs, overcrowds other vital organs, rounds the back, and throws you off balance.
— Joseph Pilates
When all your muscles are properly developed, you will, as a matter of course, perform your work with minimum effort and maximum pleasure.
— Joseph Pilates
Ideally, our muscles should obey our will. Reasonably, our will should not be dominated by the reflex actions of our muscles.
— Joseph Pilates
The mind, when housed within a healthful body, possesses a glorious sense of power.
— Joseph Pilates
A man is as old as his spine is flexible!
— Joseph Pilates
It's the mind itself which shapes the body.
— Joseph Pilates
The Pilates Method of Body Conditioning is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control of your body.
— Joseph Pilates
Above all, learn how to breathe correctly.
— Joseph Pilates
I'm fifty years ahead of my time,
— Joseph Pilates
A man is as young as his spinal column.
— Joseph Pilates
Every moment of our life can be the beginning of great things.
— Joseph Pilates
Breathing is the first act of life, and the last.
— Joseph Pilates
In 10 sessions you'll feel the difference, in 20 you'll see the difference, and in 30 you'll have a new body
— Joseph Pilates
It is the mind itself which builds the body.
— Joseph Pilates
Good posture can be successfully acquired only when the entire mechanism of the body is under perfect control.
— Joseph Pilates
Patience and persistence are vital qualities in the ultimate successful accomplishment of any worthwhile endeavor.
— Joseph Pilates
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.
— Joseph Pilates
It is better to be tired from physical exertion than to be fatigued by the 'poisons' generated by nervousness while lying awake.
— Joseph Pilates
Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase.
— Joseph Pilates
You will feel better in ten sessions, look better in twenty sessions, and have a completely new body in thirty sessions.
— Joseph Pilates
If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old. IF it is completely flexible at 60, you are young.
— Joseph Pilates
Normal muscles should function naturally in much the same manner as do the muscles of animals.
— Joseph Pilates
Above all, learn to breathe correctly.
— Joseph Pilates
It is the mind that shapes the body
— Joseph Pilates
Pilates is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control over your body.
— Joseph Pilates
Before any real benefit can be derived from physical exercises, one must first learn how to breath properly. Our very life depends on it.
— Joseph Pilates
Contrology is complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit.
— Joseph Pilates
Through the Pilates Method of Body Conditioning this unique trinity of a balanced body, mind and spirit can ever be attained. Self-confidence follows.
— Joseph Pilates
Contrology develops the body uniformly, corrects wrong postures, restores physical vitality, invigorates the mind, and elevates the spirit.
— Joseph Pilates
Concentrate on the correct movements each time you exercise, lest you do them improperly and thus lose all the vital benefits of their value.
— Joseph Pilates
The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors ...
— Joseph Pilates
You're only as old as your spine.
— Joseph Pilates
Change happens through movement and movement heals.
— Joseph Pilates
Everyone is the architect of their own happiness
— Joseph Pilates