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“If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old. IF it is completely flexible at 60, you are young.”
-- Joseph Pilates

#Spine #Young
“Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase.”
-- Joseph Pilates

#Fitness #Thinking #Wishful Thinking
“Change happens through movement and movement heals.”
-- Joseph Pilates

#Movement #Heal
“You will feel better in ten sessions, look better in twenty sessions, and have a completely new body in thirty sessions.”
-- Joseph Pilates

#Feel Better #Twenties #Looks
“The mind, when housed within a healthful body, possesses a glorious sense of power.”
-- Joseph Pilates

#Mind #Body #Glorious
“The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors...”
-- Joseph Pilates

#Spiritual #Calm #Priceless
“I must be right. Never an aspirin. Never injured a day in my life. The whole country, the whole world, should be doing my exercises. They'd be happier.”
-- Joseph Pilates

#Country #Exercise #World
“Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. Our interpretation of physical fitness is the attainment and maintenance of a uniformly developed body with a sound mind fully capable of naturally, easily, and satisfactorily performing our many and varied daily tasks with spontaneous zest and pleasure.”
-- Joseph Pilates

#Zest #Mind #Sound
“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

#Effort #Matter #Pleasure
“A man is as young as his spinal column.”
-- Joseph Pilates

#Men #Columns #Young
“Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.”
-- Joseph Pilates

#Firsts #Physical Fitness
“Not only is health a normal condition, but it is our duty not only to attain it but to maintain it.”
-- Joseph Pilates

#Normal #Duty
“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.”
-- Joseph Pilates

#Play #Skills #Giving
“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

#Real #Exercise #Benefits
“Contrology (Pilates) is complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit. Through Contrology you first purposefully acquire complete control of your own body and then through proper repetition of its exercises you gradually and progressively acquire that natural rhythm and coordination associated with all your subconscious activities.”
-- Joseph Pilates

#Exercise #Mind #Body
“Moreover, such a body freed from nervous tension and over-fatigue is the ideal shelter provided by nature for housing a well-balanced mind that is always fully capable of successfully meeting all of the complex problems of modern living.”
-- Joseph Pilates

#Mind #Body #Shelter
“To achieve the highest accomplishments within the scope of our capabilities in all walks of life we must constantly strive to acquire strong, healthy bodies and develop our minds to the limits of our ability.”
-- Joseph Pilates

#Strong #Accomplishment #Healthy
“Itâ€™s the mind itself which shapes the body.”
-- Joseph Pilates

#Mind #Body #Shapes
“The Pilates Method teaches you to be in control of your body and not at its mercy.”
-- Joseph Pilates

#Body #Pilates #Mercy
“Patience and persistence are vital qualities in the ultimate successful accomplishment of any worthwhile endeavor.”
-- Joseph Pilates

#Successful #Persistence #Accomplishment
“You're only as old as your spine.”
-- Joseph Pilates

#Spine
“Self-confidenc e, poise, consciousness of possessing the power to accomplish our desires, with renewed lively interest in life are the natural results of the practice of Contrology [Pilates].”
-- Joseph Pilates

#Self #Practice #Desire
“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

#Men #Progress #Energy
“Above all, learn how to breathe correctly.”
-- Joseph Pilates

#Breathe
“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

#Mind #Body #Spirit
“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

#Self Confidence #Unique #Mind
“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

#Teaching #Progress #Mass
“Contrology is complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit.”
-- Joseph Pilates

#Mind #Body #Spirit
“Everyone is the architect of their own happiness”
-- Joseph Pilates

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

#Movement #Hours #Calisthenics

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