Joseph Pilates Quotes

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.

Even breathing is a contribution.

I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?

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

Breathing, n You had asthma as a child, had to carry around an inhaler. But when you grew older, it went away. You could run for miles and it was fine. Sometimes I worry that this is happening to me in reverse. The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

I have a huge rib cage, which is why I can hold a note out until I'm blue in the face... because I have such a big lung capacity.

Conscious breath control is a useful tool for achieving a relaxed, clear state of mind.

I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.

If I have to run to put myself in the hospital, if I have to run that hard, that's how hard I'll have to run.

When you're feeling stressed, your breath becomes more rapid and shallow. Take some slow, deep breaths, which will reduce your stress level almost immediately.

It's really difficult to climb effortlessly.

I can hold my breath for 7 minutes and 5 seconds.

I've always worked my butt off physically and mentally.

I have to play a bit of a physical game and try to work harder than everyone else.

I try to swim once or twice a week. I basically hold my breath for, like, 12 laps, down and back, to kind of expand my lungs so that I can have better breathing when it comes down to two-minute drives where you've got to play a lot of plays all in one series and you're hurrying up.

When it comes down to digging, can't nobody dig as hard as I can dig.

I teach people how to breathe; I teach them how to use dynamic resistance, which is what gets your heart rate jacked up.

Because Pilates requires you to press your abs toward your spine, you don't want to allow your lower belly to round and press out as air comes into your lungs. You also don't want that abdominal lock to force you to breathe shallowly. To breathe correctly, you must expand your rib cage, primarily through your midback.

Above all, learn to breathe correctly.

Lazy breathing converts the lungs, literally and figuratively speaking, into a cemetery for the deposition of diseased, dying and dead germs as well as supplying an ideal haven for the multiplication of other harmful germs.

You can only breathe out if you breathe in.

Breath belongs to Mehay. Ecl has no use for it.

I love to breathe. Oxygen is sexy!

Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do.

Breathing is a fascinating thing to watch in a woman.