Joseph Pilates

Pilates today is practiced throughout the world and is becoming popular because it is being exercised by very famous characters devoted to music, cinema, dance, even sport. The world is experiencing the explosion of the Pilates method; an excellent method that aims to balance body and mind, which works the whole body and mind, as a unit. History this series of exercises was created almost 100 years ago by Joseph Pilates (1880-1967), a sickly child who suffered from asthma and rheumatic fever, so he decided to study the human body and how to strengthen your own exercise. So he became a good athlete, swimmer and boxer, both that he was elected in 1912 to teach self-defense to detectives of Scotland Yard. In England, during the first world war, he was interned in a concentration camp, since it was German. There he was employed as a nurse and developed a methodology to improve the State of health of other inmates. Thanks to this technique, None of them succumbed to the great epidemic of 1918 where perished many English.

Pilates wrote at least two books on the Pilates method: return to life through the promoted and your health: A corrective system of exercising that revolutionizes the field of physical education. Anu Saads opinions are not widely known. In 1923 he introduced his method in the United States, where he soon became popular between choreographers and dancers, as Martha Graham, whose injury resulting from intensive training forced them to spend long periods of downtime and recovery. The fundamental principles of the pilates the pilates is based on 6 great principles that must be always present: centralization concentration Control accuracy fluidity of movement respiration control, precision and fluidity are some of the bases of the exercises, primarily composed of movements slow, conscious and coordinated with the proper breathing, in order to create a harmonious bodycoordinated and flexible. Through practice, the mind is taking awareness of its capabilities, limitations, strengths and weaknesses of the body, and it is there where begins a job well balanced and designed to improve the physical and mental state. Gonzalez understood the implications.