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- Joseph H. Pilates was born in Germany in 1880. As a child he struggled with rheumatic fever, asthma and rickets. This motivated him to study yoga, martial arts, gymnastics, and boxing in order to improve his health. Combining these various forms, he began to develop his own method of exercise with the help of his wife Clara. While in a British internment camp during World War I, Pilates developed exercises to aid the patients' recovery. He used the hospital beds as exercise equipment. It was this ingenious idea that would later become the Pilates machine known as the Cadillac and most notably the Universal Reformer. But his original technique was based on his matwork, or floor exercises, which use just the body and gravity for resistance to develop superior strength and flexibility. In 1926, Joseph and Clara decided to emigrate to the United States and set up an exercise studio in New York City. Over the next fifteen years and beyond, the Pilates method became very popular in the dance community. His studio attracted many famous dancers and performers who need to rehabilitate from injuries. Modern-dance pioneer Martha Graham and ballet master George Balanchine were among his many students touched and changed by Pilates work. Pilates named his method 'contrology' and considered it a way of life. Today we know the method by his last name.
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