Joseph Pilates Quotes

Pilates is my favorite core strengthener. I do it three or four times a week. With all the strengthening and lengthening, it's like ballet. Plus, you get to do it lying down!

Contrology is not a system of haphazard exercises designed to produce only bulging muscles. ... Nor does Contrology err either by over-developed a few muscles at the expense of all others with resulting loss of grace and suppleness, or a sacrifice of the heart or lungs. Rather, it was conceived to limber and stretch muscles and ligaments so that your body will be as supple as that of a cat and not muscular like that of the body of a brewery-truck horse, or the muscle-bound body of the professional weight lifter you so much admire at the circus.

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

I'm probably the least flexible athlete you'll find. When it comes to yoga, I can't get in the positions and I can't hold them. You have to be pretty flexible to do it. Once you get certain positions, you have to have the core strength to hold those positions. It's a pretty good workout.

I've never loved spending time on the machines at the gym. But I have discovered an exercise regimen I can dedicate myself to: yoga. It's changed my body.

Pilates is great.

I like to do yoga, Pilates, dance, and things like that.

Yoga is a great form of exercise that stretches and strengthens your muscles simultaneously.

It's empowering to find a workout that builds strength and grace.

I do 10 minutes of Pilates every morning if I'm in the mood.

That's why I got into Pilates: because I can reduce the stress and impact in my joints while still being able to increase strength and flexibility, and it's going to pay dividends.

I love barre because even when I'm not dancing, I feel like I'm training those same muscles.

I have a more personal insight into the importance of core strength because my wife Louise runs a Pilates studio in London. I have enjoyed getting into Pilates. I am not the most supple but I enjoy Pilates more than yoga.

Pilates helps condition the body without punishing it.

Pilates is phenomenal.

Pilates has been the perfect solution to maintaining strength and vitality in my life.

Contrology (Pilates) is complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit. Through Contrology you first purposefully acquire complete control of your own body and then through proper repetition of its exercises you gradually and progressively acquire that natural rhythm and coordination associated with all your subconscious activities.

And that, Annette, is called Pilates

Pilates is the only exercise program that has changed my body and made me feel great

I used to dance for seventeen years -classical ballet, which was very disciplined. I like yoga and Pilates, but I don't have the discipline to go to the gym.

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

I love being toned and having muscle; it's so sexy and beautiful. And I owe it 100 percent to yoga.

I typically do yoga and I walk everywhere, and that's how I get my exercise.

Yoga is the perfect way to de-stress and work out at the same time.

I go to yoga classes and work on my core.