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• 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

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• Concentrate on the correct movement each time you exercise, lest you do them improperly and thus lose all the vital benefits. Correctly executed and mastered to the point of subconscious reaction, these exercises will reflect grace and balance in your routine activities.

  Joseph Pilates

  Exercise, Grace, Balance

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• 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

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• Never slouch as doing so compresses the lungs, overcrowds other vital organs, rounds the back, and throws you off balance.

  Joseph Pilates

  Balance, Organs, Rounds

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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

  Joseph Pilates

  Perfect, Body, Posture

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.

  Joseph Pilates

  Pilates, Firsts, Physical Fitness

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• 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

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• Concentrate on the correct movements each time you exercise, lest you do them improperly and thus lose all the vital benefits of their value.

  Joseph Pilates

  Exercise, Movement, Benefits

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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

  Joseph Pilates

  Pilates, Muscles, Flexibility

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• The man who uses intelligence with respect to his diet, his sleeping habits and who exercises properly, is beyond any question of doubt taking the very best preventive medicines provided so freely and abundantly by nature

  Joseph Pilates

  Sleep, Exercise, Men

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. In order to achieve happiness, it is imperative to gain mastery of your body. If at the age of 30 you are stiff and out of shape, you are old. If at 60 you are supple and strong then you are young.

  Joseph Pilates

  Strong, Order, Age

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

  Joseph Pilates

  Mind, Mastery, Body

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• 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

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• 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

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• 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, Pilates

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• 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.

  Joseph Pilates

  Water, Doe, Pilates

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• It is the mind that shapes the body

  Joseph Pilates

  Mind, Body, Shapes

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• You must squeeze every atom of impure air from lungs until they are almost as free of air as a vacuum.

  Joseph Pilates

  Air, Vacuums, Atoms

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• Man should develop his physical condition simultaneously with that of his mind.

  Joseph Pilates

  Men, Mind, Should

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• It is better to be tired from physical exertion than to be fatigued by the 'poisons' generated by nervousness while lying awake.

  Joseph Pilates

  Lying, Tired, Poison

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• By exercising your stomach muscles, you wring out the body, you don't catch colds, you don't get cancer, you don't get hernias. Do animals get hernias? Do animals go on diets?

  Joseph Pilates

  Cancer, Exercise, Animal

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• It is the mind itself which builds the body.

  Joseph Pilates

  Mind, Body

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• 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

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

  Joseph Pilates

  Pilates, Action, Reflexes

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• 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.

  Joseph Pilates

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness

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