Pilates Quotes

The mind, when housed within a healthful body, possesses a glorious sense of power.

If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old. IF it is completely flexible at 60, you are young.

The Pilates Method teaches you to be in control of your body and not at its mercy.

A few well-designed movements, properly performed in a balanced sequence, are worth hours of doing sloppy calisthenics or forced contortion.

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.

Above all, learn to breathe correctly.

Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.

True flexibility can be achieved only when all muscles are uniformly developed

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.

If you read my blog, you know I'm a pilates freak. And by pilates, I mean waffles.

A man is as young as his spinal column.

Ideally, our muscles should obey our will. Reasonably, our will should not be dominated by the reflex actions of our muscles.

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

Nothing good ever happens in a blackout. I've never woken up and been like, 'What is this Pilates mat doing out?'

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.

Above all, learn how to breathe correctly.

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

Civilization impairs physical fitness.

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.

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

I think Pilates is great, especially when you can do it with a trainer who keeps you on track.

Now [after doing Pilates], I have muscles of steel and could easily deal with giving birth.

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.

Pilates is definitely my favorite workout because it's hard but at the same time relaxing.

Pilates is amazing, my posture is so much better and I'm even starting to get muscles on my tummy - it's incredible.

I do Pilates, and hike with my dog.

I love pilates and yoga but don't do them regularly.

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.

I generally circuit train and do Pilates.

I love doing Pilates and dance. It's fun to mix things up and change your program every ten days.

I love Pilates, I really do, and I do it three times a week because it works well for me.

Ten years of Pilates has really changed my body for the better.

I run or walk three times a week. I do Pilates, too, which is amazing - it makes you longer and leaner.

I like doing Pilates because I get to lie down on the floor for the duration of the session.

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.

I quite like Pilates now. I have a Pilates girl in every city.

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.

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.

Pilates is the only exercise program that has changed my body and made me feel great

I like to do Pilates.

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.

I like to do yoga, Pilates, dance, and things like that.

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.

I always work out. I do Pilates and yoga.

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.

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.

I do Pilates a lot. I don't do a lot of cardiovascular stuff.

I was a fitness fiasco - until I found Pilates . . . It's been the most gentle on my body I'm longer and leaner and much more graceful. I can honestly say it's changed my body - and my life.

Pilates is my favorite meditative way to get in shape. I don't like the gym and I don't like running, so I just lay on my Pilates reformer. It's great.

Yeah, I know. Terror Aerobics. Just wait until they get it at the gym. It'll be bigge than pilates. --Eve