Pilates Quotes - Page 5

• I go to various boot camps 4-5 times a week, and I try to get some Pilates in there to thin and tone.

  Rachelle Lefevre

  Trying, Boots, Tone

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Pilates is my favorite meditative way to get in shape. I don't like the gym and I don't like running, so I just lay on my Pilates reformer. It's great.

  Lyndsy Fonseca

  Running, Shapes, Way

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You apply Pilates in everyday life, like how you sit, how you walk. You've heard a lot of people complain about back problems; it is because these people walk incorrectly with the last vertebra of their tailbone. They stick it out instead of pulling it in and down.

  Romana Kryzanowska

  People, Everyday, Complaining

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• 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.

  Joseph Pilates

  Breathing, Lazy, Dying

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• The lungs cannot be completely deflated at first without considerable effort. With perseverance, however, the desired results can be accomplished and with increasing power, gradually and progressively develop the lungs to their maximum capacity.

  Joseph Pilates

  Perseverance, Effort, Firsts

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• The Pilates Method teaches you to be in control of your body and not at its mercy.

  Joseph Pilates

  Body, Mercy, Method

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• Above all, learn how to breathe correctly.

  Joseph Pilates

  Breathe

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• The mind, when housed within a healthful body, possesses a glorious sense of power.

  Joseph Pilates

  Mind, Body, Glorious

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• True flexibility can be achieved only when all muscles are uniformly developed

  Joseph Pilates

  Muscles, Flexibility

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• I've done yoga, and I want to start Pilates soon.

  Monica Keena

  Yoga, Done, Want

  "Style & Substance: Monica Keena". Interview with Farrah Weinstein, nypost.com. September 17, 2000.

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• I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on.

  Sally Kellerman

  Hands, Work Out, Walks

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• Normal muscles should function naturally in much the same manner as do the muscles of animals.

  Joseph Pilates

  Animal, Normal, Function

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors if there be any such so fortunate living among us today. However, it is the ideal to strive for, and in our opinion, it is only through Contrology that this unique trinity of a balanced body, mind, and spirit can ever be attained.

  Joseph Pilates

  Spiritual, Unique, Mind

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• To achieve the highest accomplishments within the scope of our capabilities in all walks of life we must constantly strive to acquire strong, healthy bodies and develop our minds to the limits of our ability.

  Joseph Pilates

  Strong, Accomplishment, Healthy

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old. IF it is completely flexible at 60, you are young.

  Joseph Pilates

  Spine, Young, Flexible

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• Moreover, such a body freed from nervous tension and over-fatigue is the ideal shelter provided by nature for housing a well-balanced mind that is always fully capable of successfully meeting all of the complex problems of modern living.

  Joseph Pilates

  Mind, Body, Shelter

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• At some point I go back on the sand to get my sand legs. Because it takes a good month for my legs to catch up with everything, with the displacement and all that stuff. So right now we're training on the beach six days a week for practice, and that's generally about two and a half hours. And then I'm doing pilates three times a week.

  Kerri Walsh

  Beach, Practice, Two

  "37-year-old Olympian explains how she stays so dominant at an age when most athletes retire". Interview with Emmett Knowlton, www.businessinsider.com. March 1, 2016.

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• This is the equivalent of an “internal shower”. As the spring freshness born of the heavy rains and vast masses of melting snows on mountains in the hinterlands cause rivers to swell and rush turbulently onward to the sea, so too will your blood flow with renewed vigor as the direct result of your faithfully performing the Contrology exercises.

  Joseph Pilates

  Spring, Rain, Exercise

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• I have a friend who teaches yoga (or is it pilates?), and she said that I don't seem to live in the moment. And I said, "Exactly!" I'd go nuts if I lived in the moment.

  Peter Orner

  Yoga, Nuts, Live In The Moment

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A few well-designed movements, properly performed in a balanced sequence, are worth hours of doing sloppy calisthenics or forced contortion.

  Joseph Pilates

  Movement, Hours, Calisthenics

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• I must be right. Never an aspirin. Never injured a day in my life. The whole country, the whole world, should be doing my exercises. They'd be happier.

  Joseph Pilates

  Country, Exercise, World

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• The science of Contrology disproves that prevalent and
  all-too-trite saying; 'You're only as old as you feel.' The art
  of Contrology proves that the only real guide to your true age lies
  not in years or how you THINK you feel but as you ACTUALLY are
  as infallibly indicated by the degree of natural and normalflexibility
  enjoyed by your spine throughout life.

  Joseph Pilates

  Art, Real, Lying

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• My support system, in my surgeon, my P.T., my pilates, my weightlifting, everything that I'm doing to make my body and my mind stronger is just, you know, has been on point. So I feel very prepared for the journey to qualify, and the journey to wear the gold medal.

  Kerri Walsh

  Journey, Support Systems, Mind

  "37-year-old Olympian explains how she stays so dominant at an age when most athletes retire". Interview with Emmett Knowlton, www.businessinsider.com. March 1, 2016.

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• Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. Our interpretation of physical fitness is the attainment and maintenance of a uniformly developed body with a sound mind fully capable of naturally, easily, and satisfactorily performing our many and varied daily tasks with spontaneous zest and pleasure.

  Joseph Pilates

  Zest, Daily Tasks, Mind

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• The problem with Hollywood is that nobody works. They have meals. They go to Pilates. But it's not enough. So they do drugs. If everybody had a pile of rocks in their backyard and spent every day moving them from one side of the yard to the other, it would be a much happier place.

  Ryan Gosling

  Moving, Rocks, Drug

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