A brief history of Pilates
Pilates invented by Joseph Pilates in the early 20th century. Joseph Pilates was sickly as a child, and started exercising to improve his own health. It was during WW1, when he worked as an orderly in a hospital, that he used springs from hospital beds for the resistance exercises that he had developed. It was this experience that inspired him to make the exercise machine that is now called the Pilates Reformer.
Joseph Pilates invented the Pilates technique as a form of low intensity exercise that is suitable for anyone in almost any condition. Pilates has been successfully employed by people of limited mobility and health as this in good health because of its low energy/ low impact methods.
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