Alia to Katrina: Pilates is Bollywood’s favourite fitness routine  India Today

Once called Body Contrology, Pilates is a system developed in early 20th century by Joseph Pilates. Pilates was a sickly child who couldn’t move but he …

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What’s the difference? – The New Daily


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What's the difference?
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Pilates was developed in the early 1900s by German-born Joseph Pilates, a sickly child who was determined to get strong. He achieved this through exercise – including body-building and martial arts – before developing his own system. It has evolved to …

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What’s the difference? – The New Daily

How to Do Pilates: A Beginners Guide to Benefit Mind and Body
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When Joseph Pilates invented what he called Contrology during the early part of the 20th century, he was a nurse looking to help bring wounded American soldiers back to health with a series of body and mind moves. He himself had been a sickly child but

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