Top 100 Quotes About Pilates

#1. Real men won't ever do any of the following: Wear pinky rings Sing along to Madonna Cry during the Bachelorette Wear a man bun Go to Pilates class Wear speedos

Manly M. Mann

#2. I have a treadmill in my house, which is great because even if I jump on it for a little bit, it makes me feel better. I love yoga and Pilates too. I have a private Pilates instructor I go to once a week.

Holly Madison

#3. Pilates makes you feel good because you're doing something that's good for your body, and you start seeing it. It elongates the muscles.

Behati Prinsloo

#4. Were man to devote as much time and energy to himself as he has devoted to that which man has produced, what astounding and unbelievable progress would be made; a progress eclipsing all he has so far successfully accomplished ...

Joseph Pilates

#5. I'm also crazy about Pilates Plus, which I do three times a week. The class is 55 minutes, head to toe. In that short amount of time, I've done everything I need to do. And for a working mom, what could be better?

Brooke Burke

#6. I will never do Pilates. I walk.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#7. I live for Pilates reformer class. I go at least three times a week. It's a great way to lengthen your muscles, stretch, and kind of relax your mind.

Shawn Johnson

#8. Patience and persistence are vital qualities in the ultimate successful accomplishment of any worthwhile endeavor.

Joseph Pilates

#9. You can say what Pilates is in three words. Stretch with Strength and Control. And the control part is the most important because that makes you use your mind.

Romana Kryzanowska

#10. I love Pilates - I am a really big believer in it as a practise; I think it's fab.

Louise Nurding

#11. I do Pilates two to three times a week if I'm lucky. Usually just two.

Sarah Clarke

#12. For me, a stay at the Uma Paro with Pilates every morning is a perfect escape.

Ben Elliot

#13. I do Pilates a lot. I don't do a lot of cardiovascular stuff.

Teri Garr

#14. Through the Pilates Method of Body Conditioning this unique trinity of a balanced body, mind and spirit can ever be attained. Self-confidence follows.

Joseph Pilates

#15. It is the mind itself which builds the body.

Joseph Pilates

#16. I wanted to get really fit. I wanted to lose some weight. So I've been doing Pilates and yoga, trying to lean out my body so I won't be bulky.

Serena Williams

#17. I try to be consistent, so I practice yoga and Pilates to help keep my body and mind balanced.

Miranda Kerr

#18. 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

#19. If you read my blog, you know I'm a pilates freak. And by pilates, I mean waffles.

Zach Galifianakis

#20. I am a bit of a health nut. I really like to mix it up a lot. I do a lot of yoga, and I do a lot of Pilates, but I also like to run. That's kind of my meditation, I guess.

Jessica McNamee

#21. I also discovered Pilates when I got pregnant, as people kept saying it's a great way to stay in shape, and now I can't get enough - it's amazing. It helps with aches and pain and, even for non-pregnant people, it's a great way of getting those lean muscles.

Olivia Wilde

#22. And right away as soon as I started doing Pilates, about 2 to 3 weeks into it I could tell that my clothes were already fitting differently. And I felt stronger than ever. My core felt tighter than ever.

Daisy Fuentes

#23. 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

#24. I try to mix it up! I do a little Pilates. I do a little Cardio Barre; sometimes I run or do the stairs.

Laura Leighton

#25. I start my day with a mind, body, soul practice - yoga, Pilates or meditation.

Donna Karan

#26. With body, mind, and spirit functioning perfectly as a coordinated whole, what else could reasonably be expected other than an active, alert, disciplined person?

Joseph Pilates

#27. For instance, if He wants your life, what are you going to do, eat spinach and go to pilates?

Matt Chandler

#28. By exercising your stomach muscles, you wring out the body, you don't catch colds, you don't get cancer, you don't get hernias. Do animals get hernias? Do animals go on diets?

Joseph Pilates

#29. Breathing is the first act of life, and the last.

Joseph Pilates

#30. You okay?" Eve asked her. Claire nodded, still gasping. "Yeah, I know. Terror Aerobics. Just wait until they get it at the gym. It'll be bigger than Pilates.

Rachel Caine

#31. Contrology is not a fatiguing system of dull, boring, abhorred exercises repeated daily "ad-nauseam." Neither does it demand you joining a gymnasium nor the purchasing of expensive apparatus. You may derive all the benefits of Contrology in your own home.

Joseph Pilates

#32. Sexy is attitude, but fitness for me is my dance. I dance two hours nearly every day. You break into good sweat, and it doesn't even feel like exercise. Apart from that, I enjoy Pilates.

Jiah Khan

#33. 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

#34. I always work out. I do Pilates and yoga.

Kim Delaney

#35. I exercise at least five times a week with stretching, Pilates, push-ups, planks, sit- ups, squats and light weights.

Reba McEntire

#36. Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it's my job, I have no hobby - except watching TV and laying around the pool reading 'U.S. Weekly.' I have tried many hobbies, such as knitting, Pilates, ballet, yoga, and guitar, but none of them have taken.

Meg Cabot

#37. My favorite outdoor activities are running, yoga, and functional training. My favorite indoor workouts are Pilates, kickboxing, functional training, and a lot of different exercises at the gym with and without weights - including TRX.

Izabel Goulart

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

Joseph Pilates

#39. It is the mind that shapes the body

Joseph Pilates

#40. I go to the gym three times a week and do Pilates three times a week, but not for more than an hour. It's not healthy.

Brittany Snow

#41. 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

#42. I take ballet class as often as possible - up to 5 times a week - and try to go to the gym on the days that I don't take class. I also do a floor barre/Pilates mat class almost everyday.

Amanda Schull

#43. I get bored doing the same activity over and over. In any one week, I could do a Pilates class, a yoga class, go to a gym, like a pump class, or do weights and then go for a run. Each day, I like to change it up a bit.

Jessica McNamee

#44. Man should bear in mind and ponder over the Greek admonition - Not Too Much, Not Too Little.

Joseph Pilates

#45. Contrology develops the body uniformly, corrects wrong postures, restores physical vitality, invigorates the mind, and elevates the spirit.

Joseph Pilates

#46. I'm a Pilates person. It's great. I had a hip problem. I had a chronic back, a pinched nerve and a hip problem and it's completely solved all of it. I love it. It makes me feel like I'm taller.

Jennifer Aniston

#47. Things that we do every day make up who we are and the results we have in our life. Bank accounts collect from constant deposits and good health is achieved or maintained from what we put into our bodies daily.

Malti Bhojwani

#48. Power is nothing without a rock solid core. Pilates is the key to activating it ... guys don't be fooled just 'cause women do it. It's no joke. Try it and you'll find out real quick.

DeMarcus Ware

#49. I love doing Pilates and dance. It's fun to mix things up and change your program every ten days.

Lily Aldridge

#50. I'm really into fitness, so my hobbies are yoga, Pilates, and working out.

Charlotte McKinney

#51. I love to do Pilates, boxing and even just going on a run. I do cardio twice a week as it's important for people who want to eat lots like me! I do Pilates ones a week.

Irina Shayk

#52. I do Pilates and yoga to stay in front of the curve. I feel like it's helping me. Does it work for everybody? I don't know. I'm not a guru on how to be in the best condition. Let me sit here and tell you that. But it works for me.

LeBron James

#53. And that, Annette, is called Pilates

Jeaniene Frost

#54. Concentrate on the correct movements each time you exercise, lest you do them improperly and thus lose all the vital benefits of their value.

Joseph Pilates

#55. I'm very involved with Pilates as well; you have to be careful. I can't do headstands any more, I have a neck and a spinal problem, but I used to do it.

Donna Karan

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

Joseph Pilates

#57. Postural exercises such as yoga, Pilates, Egoscues, Alexander technique and martial arts are about avoiding pain and injury as much as helping you feel good. Attractive men and women have good posture.

Liz Miller

#58. When I do Pilates, or when I do work out, I feel better all day. Yet I still struggle to keep it on my schedule.

Maria Bello

#59. I'm obsessed with vinyasa flow yoga and Pilates. And since I live in Sweden, and we have good seafood, I tend to cook a lot of fish, preferably with oven-roasted veggies and a cauliflower mash.

Frida Gustavsson

#60. You will feel better in ten sessions, look better in twenty sessions, and have a completely new body in thirty sessions.

Joseph Pilates

#61. I've been doing Pilates since 1974, I lift weights, I power walk every day and I run backwards. That's sometimes a little hard when you're not on your home turf, because you've got to find a place where there are no bumps in the way - or people.

Britt Ekland

#62. Once I got both my hips replaced, I could start working out and going Pilates, and it's helped me be more active and youthful.

Jane Kaczmarek

#63. Sometimes I do yoga, sometimes it's kickboxing, sometimes it's weight training, sometimes it's Pilates.

Paula Patton

#64. IF you can approach Pilates as a business and have awareness of your own monetary needs, there is no reason why you can't make money.

Lesley Logan

#65. Aside from performing in 'Peepshow,' I do yoga once a week and I like Pilates. I'm more into toning exercises over aerobics. I like working with a trainer at a private gym, but I also like going with friends because you don't get bored or distracted.

Holly Madison

#66. Not only is health a normal condition, but it is our duty not only to attain it but to maintain it.

Joseph Pilates

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

Joseph Pilates

#68. I was an athlete growing up. I did a lot of sports: soccer, basketball, so I was always so used to hardcore training, a lot of running. I got to a point where I felt like I just wanted to get toned; I didn't need to shed pounds, so now I do Pilates.

Jacquelyn Jablonski

#69. As a heavy rainstorm freshens the water of a sluggish or stagnant stream and whips it into immediate action, so does the Pilates Methods purify the bloodstream.

Joseph Pilates

#70. I am lucky, I don't have aches and pains. I do Pilates regularly, which is a series of stretching exercises, and I recommend it to anyone of my age because the temptation is not to exercise when you get older. Well, you should.

Ian McKellen

#71. We have two trainers at the polo ground and do a mix of aerobics, gymnastics and stretches before we start riding. As polo players, it's very important for us to keep in shape. We do a bit of yoga and Pilates sometimes, too.

Facundo Pieres

#72. Pilates is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control over your body.

Joseph Pilates

#73. Above all, learn to breathe correctly.

Joseph Pilates

#74. I do not think that there can ever be enough books about anything; and I say that knowing that some of them are going to be about Pilates.

Sarah Vowell

#75. I like to be very consistent with workouts and getting a good amount of sleep. I've really been enjoying Pilates lately. It's actually really tough to fit in my schedule, but if I can get in a workout three times a week while we're shooting, that feels right. Any more seems to deplete my energy.

Darby Stanchfield

#76. I generally circuit train and do Pilates.

Emmanuelle Chriqui

#77. I'm really self-conscious if I go to trainers, so I just do stuff on my own. I go on the treadmill or do yoga and Pilates if I can.

Bella Hadid

#78. All the sudden high-impact stress can really take a toll on your body. So if you still want to be active and get in a good workout, go to a yoga class or pilates class, or get in some strength and conditioning.

Sophia Bush

#79. It's the mind itself which shapes the body.

Joseph Pilates

#80. I believe in holistic medicine, yoga, Pilates and so on. But I also believe in banana split sundaes once in a while.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#81. I like doing yoga. I do yoga three times a week and I do Pilates twice.

Heather Graham

#82. Nothing good ever happens in a blackout. I've never woken up and been like, 'What is this Pilates mat doing out?'

Amy Schumer

#83. Time and progress are synonymous terms
nothing can stop either. Truth will prevail and that is why I know that my teachings will reach the masses and finally be adopted as universal.

Joseph Pilates

#84. You must squeeze every atom of impure air from lungs until they are almost as free of air as a vacuum.

Joseph Pilates

#85. No matter what I write or speak about, it always has some connection to how our spiritual understanding impacts the world we live in. Whether I'm writing or teaching about nutrition, pilates, green living or meditation, all topics simmer down to self thought and intention.

Marianne Williamson

#86. We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.

Joseph Pilates

#87. Daily, from sunrise to sunset, the radio, newspapers and magazines broadcast to the world how to maintain health, how to regain health ... the conflicting information, expressive of the different opinions of these various health authorities, has proved to be nothing less than confusion ...

Joseph Pilates

#88. I wish I did something like yoga or Pilates. All the people I know who do it tell me it's incredible.

Jai Courtney

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

Joseph Pilates

#90. Contrology is complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit.

Joseph Pilates

#91. 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

#92. 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

#93. I have always worked out, and I've gone through different phases of yoga, but the combination of Pilates three days a week with yoga is incredible.

Claudia Schiffer

#94. Before any real benefit can be derived from physical exercises, one must first learn how to breath properly. Our very life depends on it.

Joseph Pilates

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

Joseph Pilates

#96. It is better to be tired from physical exertion than to be fatigued by the 'poisons' generated by nervousness while lying awake.

Joseph Pilates

#97. I normally work out six days a week. I'll do Pilates on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, and I'll do cardio on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

Rachel Nichols

#98. Pilates is my favorite core strengthener. I do it three or four times a week. With all the strengthening and lengthening, it's like ballet. Plus, you get to do it lying down!

Emily VanCamp

#99. I try to stay sane and grounded by hunkering down, eating right, and exercising. I make a routine of spin class, yoga, and Pilates, places I push my body so hard I can lose my mind. Cutting out caffeine and sugar, being mindful, and getting enough rest are important.

Jaime Murray

#100. 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

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