Joseph Pilates Quotes
Top 42 wise famous quotes and sayings by Joseph Pilates
Joseph Pilates Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
You must squeeze every atom of impure air from lungs until they are almost as free of air as a vacuum.
Never slouch as doing so compresses the lungs, overcrowds other vital organs, rounds the back, and throws you off balance.
When all your muscles are properly developed, you will, as a matter of course, perform your work with minimum effort and maximum pleasure.
Ideally, our muscles should obey our will. Reasonably, our will should not be dominated by the reflex actions of our muscles.
The Pilates Method of Body Conditioning is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control of your body.
In 10 sessions you'll feel the difference, in 20 you'll see the difference, and in 30 you'll have a new body
Good posture can be successfully acquired only when the entire mechanism of the body is under perfect control.
Patience and persistence are vital qualities in the ultimate successful accomplishment of any worthwhile endeavor.
We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.
It is better to be tired from physical exertion than to be fatigued by the 'poisons' generated by nervousness while lying awake.
You will feel better in ten sessions, look better in twenty sessions, and have a completely new body in thirty sessions.
If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old. IF it is completely flexible at 60, you are young.
Before any real benefit can be derived from physical exercises, one must first learn how to breath properly. Our very life depends on it.
Through the Pilates Method of Body Conditioning this unique trinity of a balanced body, mind and spirit can ever be attained. Self-confidence follows.
Contrology develops the body uniformly, corrects wrong postures, restores physical vitality, invigorates the mind, and elevates the spirit.
Concentrate on the correct movements each time you exercise, lest you do them improperly and thus lose all the vital benefits of their value.
The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors ...