Could you be a pilates person?

You may be a size 10 or a size 22.
Mega fit, or allergic to the gym.  You could be young, wish your were younger, male or female.

Just about anybody can be a pilates person.

The inventor of pilates was a highly unlikely candidate. Born in Dusseldorf in 1880, despite being a sickly child suffering from rickets, asthma and rheumatic fever, Joseph Pilates went on to be a fitness guru and lived to the ripe old age of 87.

Such was his level of fitness his body was used for anatomical drawings.

Joseph Pilates studied gymnastics, diving, Zen meditation and body building for his personal physical improvement. During the war he was interned in the UK, and went on to formulate Heath-Robinson-like contraptions by rigging up old bedsprings at various angles to provide resistance exercises for the hospital patients. He achieved amazing results.

Pilates really took off when Joseph Pilates emigrated to America in 1926 and went on to work with Martha Graham’s Dance Company and the New York Ballet.

Over the years pilates exercises have evolved and become a highly effective regime that could be just for you. Who ever you are.