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

Joseph Pilates

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Joseph Pilates
Age: 83 †
Born: 1883
Born: December 9
Died: 1967
Died: October 9
Coach
Entrepreneur
Gymnast
Inventor
Pilates Trainer
München-Gladbach
Joseph Hubertus Pilates
Mind
Coordination
Complete
Spirit
Body

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By all means never fail to get all the sunshine and fresh air you can.
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If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old. IF it is completely flexible at 60, you are young.
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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.
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Good posture can be successfully acquired only when the entire mechanism of the body is under perfect control.
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Daily, from sunrise to sunset, the radio, newspapers and magazines broadcast to the world how to maintain health, how to regain health... the conflicting information, expressive of the different opinions of these various health authorities, has proved to be nothing less than confusion.
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