Pilates – What’s It All About?

Open any celebrity magazine and you’ll find everyone talking about how they keep slim and fit. Their exercise regime of choice? Pilates. So what’s it all about?

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Joseph Pilates was born in Germany of Greek parentage and devised his exercis

e regime in the twenties. He used his knowledge of Yoga and martial arts to put together a number of movements which would bring mind and body together. His sincere belief was that you could not improve one without the other.
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