Contrology is not a fatiguing system of dull, boring, abhorred exercises repeated daily “ad-nauseam.” Neither does it demand you joining a gymnasium nor the purchasing of expensive apparatus. You may derive all the benefits of Contrology in your own home.

— Joseph Pilates

Joseph Pilates Quotes

Normal muscles should function naturally in much the same manner as do the muscles of animals.

— Joseph Pilates

Contrology is complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit.

— Joseph Pilates
Wellness Wednesday Fitness

Breathing is the first act of life, and the last.

— Joseph Pilates

Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. In order to achieve happiness, it is imperative to gain mastery of your body. If at the age of 30 you are stiff and out of shape, you are old. If at 60 you are supple and strong then you are young.

— Joseph Pilates

With body, mind, and spirit functioning perfectly as a coordinated whole, what else could reasonably be expected other than an active, alert, disciplined person?

— Joseph Pilates

Man should develop his physical condition simultaneously with that of his mind.

— Joseph Pilates

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.

— Joseph Pilates

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.

— Joseph Pilates

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.

— Joseph Pilates

Contrology is not a fatiguing system of dull, boring, abhorred exercises repeated daily “ad-nauseam.” Neither does it demand you joining a gymnasium nor the purchasing of expensive apparatus. You may derive all the benefits of Contrology in your own home.

— Joseph Pilates

Man should bear in mind and ponder over the Greek admonition – Not Too Much, Not Too Little.

— Joseph Pilates

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...

— 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

Civilization impairs physical fitness.

— Joseph Pilates
About Civilization

Breathing is the first act of life and the last. Our very life depends on it. Since we cannot live without breathing it is tragically deplorable to contemplate the millions and millions who have never mastered the art of correct breathing.

— Joseph Pilates
Fitness

By exercising your stomach muscles, you wring out the body, you don’t catch colds, you don’t get cancer, you don’t get hernias. Do animals get hernias? Do animals go on diets?

— 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

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.

— Joseph Pilates

Contrology is not a fatiguing system of dull, boring, abhorred exercises repeated daily “ad-nausem”.

— Joseph Pilates

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.

— Joseph Pilates
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