{"id":465,"date":"2011-11-30T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flirtingwithfitness.com\/exercise\/exercising\/pilates\/joseph-pilates\/"},"modified":"2011-11-30T08:00:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T13:00:31","slug":"joseph-pilates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flirtingwithfitness.com\/exercise\/exercising\/pilates\/joseph-pilates\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Pilates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;margin-right:10px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"69\" width=\"53\" src=\"http:\/\/widgets.fbshare.me\/files\/fbshare.php?url=https:\/\/flirtingwithfitness.com\/exercise\/exercising\/pilates\/joseph-pilates\/&title=Joseph Pilates\n&size=large\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/div><div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"FlirtingFitness\" data-hashtags=\"exercise,exercises,exercising,fitness,health,pilates,windsor+pilates,winsor+pilates\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"https:\/\/flirtingwithfitness.com\/exercise\/exercising\/pilates\/joseph-pilates\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nJoseph Pilates was born in Germany in 1880. In 1912 he moved to England and earned a living as a boxer, a circus performer and a self-defense trainer. During World Was I he was sent to a camp in Lancaster where he trained other inmates in fitness and exercises and this is where the beginning of the Pilates method stemmed from.<\/p>\n<p>It was about 1925 when Joseph Pilates migrated to the U.S. On the ship he came over on, he met his future wife, Clara. In New York City, they began a studio and taught and supervised students all the way until the 1960&#39;s.<\/p>\n<p>Pilates method of exercise used the mind to control the muscles of the body. It focuses on the core muscles of the abdomen to help keep the body balanced. A balanced body provides support for the spine.<\/p>\n<p>Pilates also teaches awareness of breathing and alignment of the spine to strengthen the torso muscles. Strong core muscles can help to relieve back and neck pain.<\/p>\n<p>When Joseph Pilates was a child, he was sickly, suffering from asthma, rickets and rheumatic fever. It was after this that he began to dedicate his life to better health and becoming physically stronger.<\/p>\n<p>By the age of 14, he was fit enough to post for anatomical charts mostly due to his practicing of gymnastics and bodybuilding.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph believed the root of poor health came from poor breathing practices and bad posture. 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