Joseph Pilates, the founder of Pilates, was sickly since childhood. However, in his later work, he combined the eastern and western health-keeping methods, such as yoga, Tai Chi and traditional health-keeping methods in ancient Greece and Rome, and created Pilates with his own designed equipment and sports skills. 19 14 War broke out in Europe. Joseph Pilate, who lived in England at that time, was put in a concentration camp because he was German. In the concentration camp, he began to help those bedridden patients train and restore their muscle strength and control. Later, Joseph Pilates moved to new york to train with ballet dancers. This kind of training was further spread, and many celebrities came to practice, thus gradually forming Joseph Pilates' fitness studio.
"The first requirement of happiness is health. Our understanding of physical health is to achieve and maintain the unity of body and sound mind, abundant natural exercise ability, and happily and calmly complete various tasks in daily life. " Joseph Pilates wrote the above passage in 1945, which also fully explained the true meaning of Pilates.
Now, Pilates has evolved into a noun, referring to all courses that use Joseph Pilates to exercise. This course can be a group fitness course or a private training course set up by a coach to correct special injuries, muscle imbalance or other physical problems. Pilates group fitness classes are specially designed for people who work in offices. Because of working at a desk and computer for a long time, muscle development is unbalanced. This lesson mainly focuses on the muscle training of abdominal muscles, gluteal muscles, shoulders and back. Regular pilates exercises can correct body posture, relax waist and neck, solve shoulder problems and tighten loose muscles in arms and abdomen. Nowadays, many professional athletes also use Pilates to avoid sports injuries.