August 5, 2008By Gloria Romo
Pilates has been around since 1880.
Pilates was created by Joseph H. Pilates, born in Germany. He grew up a sickly child afflicted with asthma, rickets and rheumatic fever. His father was a prize-winning gymnast, while his mother was a naturopath, who believed in the principal of stimulating the body to heal itself without artificial drugs. This greatly influenced Pilate's later ideas on therapeutic exercises. Joseph lived a very interesting life, and how it came together as Pil >>

