Quotes from Joseph Pilates

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

A man is as old as his spine is flexible!

Contrology is designed to give you suppleness, natural grace, and skill that will be unmistakably reflected in the way you walk, in the way you play, and in the way you work.

When all your muscles are properly developed, you will, as a matter of course, perform your work with minimum effort and maximum pleasure.

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?

Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase.

Through the Pilates Method of Body Conditioning this unique trinity of a balanced body, mind and spirit can ever be attained. Self-confidence follows.

Civilization impairs physical fitness.