Who was Joseph Pilates

Born in Germany in 1883, Jospeh Pilates was an inventor of fitness and fitness apparatus. He opened his New York City studio in 1926 where he planned to train boxers. He called his fitness method Contrology, in which you learn to control your body. Due to his location in the city he worked with a lot of famous dancers. He continued to develop his method and equipment until he died in 1967. Throughout his life he invented 26 apparatus, some of his most famous being the Reformer and the Magic Circle.