Joseph Pilates Quotes

Joseph Pilates writes plainly about making everyday bodies feel balanced and calm, touching fitness, health and a hint of spirituality.

15 quotes

  1. I'm not concerned with body building; I'm just trying to make people normal human beings.

  2. 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.

  3. The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors if there be any such so fortunate living among us today. However, it is the ideal to strive for, and in our opinion, it is only through Contrology that this unique trinity of a balanced body, mind, and spirit can ever be attained.

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

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

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. I learned...every part of the body; I would move each part as I memorized it. As a child, I would lie in the woods for hours, hiding and watching the animals move, how the mother taught the young.

  9. Because of poor posture, practically 95% of our population suffers from varying degrees of spinal curvature, not to mention more serious ailments. Good posture can be successfully acquired only when the entire mechanism of the body is under perfect control.

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

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

  12. Above all, learn how to breathe correctly.

  13. The Pilates Method of Body Conditioning is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control of your body.

  14. You're only as old as your spine.

  15. 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.