Joseph hubertus pilates the biography of jesus
Taunted as a child for the similarity of the family name to the killer of Jesus Christ, Pilates was also asthmatic and in ill health..
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Joseph Pilates
German physical trainer (–)
Joseph Hubertus Pilates (9 December – 9 October ) was a German physical trainer, writer, and inventor. He is credited with inventing and promoting the Pilates method of physical fitness.
He patented a total of 26 apparatuses in his lifetime.[1]
Biography
Early life
Joseph Hubertus Pilates was born on 9 December in Mönchengladbach, Germany.[2] His father, Heinrich Friedrich Pilates, was a metal worker and enthusiastic gymnast, and his mother was a housewife.[3][4]
Pilates was a sickly child.
He suffered from asthma, rickets, and rheumatic fever, and he dedicated his entire life to improving his physical strength. He was introduced by his father to gymnastics and body-building, and to martial arts like jiu-jitsu and boxing.[5] By the age of 14, he was fit enough to pose for anatomical charts.
Pilates came to believe that the "modern" lifestyle, bad posture, and inefficient breath