Joseph Pilates Quotes

Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.

Change happens through movement and movement heals.

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

Physical fitness can neither be bought nor borrowed; it must be earned.

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

In 10 sessions, you’ll feel the difference. In 20 sessions, you’ll see the difference. In 30 sessions, others will see the difference.

You will feel better in 10 sessions, look better in 20 sessions, and have a completely new body in 30 sessions.

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors.

Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.

Contrology develops the body uniformly, corrects wrong postures, restores physical vitality, invigorates the mind, and elevates the spirit.

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

Change happens through movement and movement heals.

The whole country, the whole world, should be doing my exercises. They’d be happier.

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, in the way you work.

Joseph Pilates Quotes part 2

Every moment of our life can be the beginning of great things.

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

The art of contrology proves that the only real guide to your true age lies not in years or how you THINK you feel, but as you ACTUALLY are as infallibly indicated by the degree of natural and normal flexibility, coordination, and the use of your joints.

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.

Contrology is not a system of haphazard exercises designed to produce only bulging muscles.

Contrology is complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit.

The philosophy of physical education in the future will be the replacement of the drill-master and the inspired amateur by the enthusiastic teacher.

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

Neither before or after have I encountered anyone who is capable of fantastic single performances with so little or no effort at any time. He goes on for hours and demonstrates strenuous exercises nonchalantly.

Change happens through movement and movement heals.

First you must understand the universal principals of movement, then adhere to the specific requirements of each exercise.

Physical fitness can neither be bought nor borrowed, it must be earned.

The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors.

A man is as young as his spinal column.

The backbone is the tree of life.

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

My idea is that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they’ll create their own program.

In 10 sessions you’ll feel the difference, in 20 sessions you’ll see the difference, and in 30 sessions you’ll have a whole new body.

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.

Patience and persistence are vital qualities in the ultimate successful accomplishment of any worthwhile endeavor.

You will feel better in ten sessions, look better in twenty sessions, and have a completely new body in thirty sessions.

As with most endeavors, start slowly and build your strength up gradually.

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

You are only as young as your spine is flexible.

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

I’m 50 years old and I’ve never been sick a day in my life. I’ll take my health and body over going gray or bald any day.

My method develops skeletal muscles uniformly so that if one muscle group is weak, another takes over.

Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.

Good posture can be successfully acquired only when the entire mechanism of the body is under perfect control.

Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.

Contrology is not a personal peculiar theory of a single individual.

Good posture can be successfully acquired only when the entire mechanism of the body is under perfect control.

Contrology controls the body, the mind is the controller.

First you have to know how to use apparatus. Before you can teach correctly, you must learn by doing yourself.

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