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You're only as old as your spine.

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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
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The Pilates Method of Body Conditioning is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control of your body.
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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.
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Above all, learn how to breathe correctly.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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Breathing is the first act of life, and the last.
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Time and progress are synonymous terms--nothing can stop either. Truth will prevail and that is why I know that my teachings will reach the masses and finally be adopted as universal.
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It is the mind itself which builds the body.
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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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Before any real benefit can be derived from physical exercises, one must first learn how to breath properly. Our very life depends on it.
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This is the equivalent of an “internal shower”. As the spring freshness born of the heavy rains and vast masses of melting snows on mountains in the hinterlands cause rivers to swell and rush turbulently onward to the sea, so too will your blood flow with renewed vigor as the direct result of your faithfully performing the Contrology exercises.
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Physical fitness can neither be acquired by wishful thinking nor by outright purchase.
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Man should bear in mind and ponder over the Greek admonition - Not Too Much, Not Too Little.
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Patience and persistence are vital qualities in the ultimate successful accomplishment of any worthwhile endeavor.
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