1.
The mind, when housed within a healthful body, possesses a glorious sense of power.
Joseph Pilates
The intellect, when housed within a vigorous physique, enjoys an incomparable feeling of strength.
2.
If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old. IF it is completely flexible at 60, you are young.
Joseph Pilates
If your back is rigidly unbending at 30, you are aged. IF it is fully pliant at 60, you are youthful.
3.
The Pilates Method teaches you to be in control of your body and not at its mercy.
Joseph Pilates
The Pilates Method imparts the ability to reign over one's physicality, not be subject to it.
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A few well-designed movements, properly performed in a balanced sequence, are worth hours of doing sloppy calisthenics or forced contortion.
Joseph Pilates
A small number of deliberate actions, done accurately in an ordered arrangement, are worth more than hours of performing sloppy exercises or unnatural contortion.
5.
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
6.
Above all, learn to breathe correctly.
Joseph Pilates
Master the art of respiration.
7.
Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.
Joseph Pilates
Exercise is the essential basis of contentment.
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True flexibility can be achieved only when all muscles are uniformly developed
Joseph Pilates
9.
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
10.
If you read my blog, you know I'm a pilates freak. And by pilates, I mean waffles.
Zach Galifianakis
12.
Ideally, our muscles should obey our will. Reasonably, our will should not be dominated by the reflex actions of our muscles.
Joseph Pilates
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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
14.
I'm a Pilates person. It's great. I had a hip problem. I had a chronic back, a pinched nerve and a hip problem and it's completely solved all of it. I love it. It makes me feel like I'm taller.
Jennifer Aniston
15.
Nothing good ever happens in a blackout. I've never woken up and been like, 'What is this Pilates mat doing out?'
Amy Schumer
17.
Normal muscles should function naturally in much the same manner as do the muscles of animals.
Joseph Pilates
19.
Contrology is not a fatiguing system of dull, boring, abhorred exercises repeated daily "ad-nausem".
Joseph Pilates
20.
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
21.
Now [after doing Pilates], I have muscles of steel and could easily deal with giving birth.
Hugh Grant
22.
I think Pilates is great, especially when you can do it with a trainer who keeps you on track.
Cate Blanchett
23.
Pilates introduced me to muscles I never even knew I had. Soon I started to feel longer and leaner. Ten years of Pilates has really changed my body for the better.
Lucy Liu
24.
Pilates is definitely my favorite workout because it's hard but at the same time relaxing.
Devon Windsor
25.
Pilates is amazing, my posture is so much better and I'm even starting to get muscles on my tummy - it's incredible.
Kelly Osbourne
27.
I kind of put myself out there as is. I'm a quiet person. I don't know if that's surprising. I'm a Pilates junkie.
Zach Galifianakis
28.
I do Pilates, and hike with my dog.
Kate Walsh
29.
And right away as soon as I started doing Pilates, about 2 to 3 weeks into it I could tell that my clothes were already fitting differently. And I felt stronger than ever. My core felt tighter than ever.
Daisy Fuentes
30.
I quite like Pilates now. I have a Pilates girl in every city.
Hugh Grant
31.
Im obsessed with vinyasa flow yoga and Pilates. And since I live in Sweden, and we have good seafood, I tend to cook a lot of fish, preferably with oven-roasted veggies and a cauliflower mash.
Frida Gustavsson
33.
I love doing Pilates and dance. It's fun to mix things up and change your program every ten days.
Lily Aldridge
34.
Ten years of Pilates has really changed my body for the better.
Lucy Liu
35.
I love Pilates, I really do, and I do it three times a week because it works well for me.
Aerin Lauder
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I run or walk three times a week. I do Pilates, too, which is amazing - it makes you longer and leaner.
Martine McCutcheon
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I like doing Pilates because I get to lie down on the floor for the duration of the session.
Lily Donaldson
38.
I work out with my trainer or do an hour of pilates at 6 or 7AM. I'm done by the time my household is awake.
David Beckham
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I ran right back to work. My back was just destroyed after pregnancy. I almost had to have surgery, until I did Pilates and rebuilt my body.
Melissa McCarthy
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I always work out. I do Pilates and yoga.
Kim Delaney
41.
I love exercise but I find it boring doing the same thing all the time, so I fluctuate between going to the gym, doing Pilates and taking dance lessons.
Twiggy
42.
I'm very involved with Pilates as well; you have to be careful. I can't do headstands any more, I have a neck and a spinal problem, but I used to do it.
Donna Karan
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Pilates is the only exercise program that has changed my body and made me feel great
Jamie Lee Curtis
45.
Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
Zooey Deschanel
47.
I do Pilates a lot. I don't do a lot of cardiovascular stuff.
Teri Garr
48.
Yeah, I know. Terror Aerobics. Just wait until they get it at the gym. It'll be bigge than pilates. --Eve
Rachel Caine
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I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on.
Sally Kellerman