Pilates Quotes

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

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

The Pilates Method teaches you to be in control of your body and not at its mercy.

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

Breathing is the first act of life and the last. Our very life depends on it. Since we cannot live without breathing it is tragically deplorable to contemplate the millions and millions who have never mastered the art of correct breathing.

Above all, learn to breathe correctly.

Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.

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

As a heavy rainstorm freshens the water of a sluggish or stagnant stream and whips it into immediate action, so does the Pilates Methods purify the bloodstream.

If you read my blog, you know I'm a pilates freak. And by pilates, I mean waffles.

A man is as young as his spinal column.

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

With body, mind, and spirit functioning perfectly as a coordinated whole, what else could reasonably be expected other than an active, alert, disciplined person?

I'm a Pilates person. It's great. I had a hip problem. I had a chronic back, a pinched nerve and a hip problem and it's completely solved all of it. I love it. It makes me feel like I'm taller.

Nothing good ever happens in a blackout. I've never woken up and been like, 'What is this Pilates mat doing out?'

Above all, learn how to breathe correctly.

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

Civilization impairs physical fitness.

Contrology is not a fatiguing system of dull, boring, abhorred exercises repeated daily "ad-nausem".

The lungs cannot be completely deflated at first without considerable effort. With perseverance, however, the desired results can be accomplished and with increasing power, gradually and progressively develop the lungs to their maximum capacity.

Now [after doing Pilates], I have muscles of steel and could easily deal with giving birth.

I think Pilates is great, especially when you can do it with a trainer who keeps you on track.

Pilates introduced me to muscles I never even knew I had. Soon I started to feel longer and leaner. Ten years of Pilates has really changed my body for the better.

Pilates is amazing, my posture is so much better and I'm even starting to get muscles on my tummy - it's incredible.

Pilates is definitely my favorite workout because it's hard but at the same time relaxing.