“After years (okay, decades) of a sedentary lifestyle and half-heartedly trying and quickly abandoning various exercise crazes, I became a fitness success story through this program as taught at Pilates Challenge. Pilates brought me an overall level of fitness I never dreamed possible, enabled me to drop two dress sizes, and saw me through rapid recovery from total hip replacement surgery. ” J.F., attorney, NYC
“Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.” Joseph Pilates
“It is the spirit which shapes the body.” Joseph Pilates
“There should be a sign over every studio saying, ‘Pilates is a workout!’” Romana Kryzanowska
“Done three times a week, a few well-designed movements, properly executed in sequence, are worth hours of calisthenics or contortions!” Romana Kryzanowska
“Many people who have seen Pilates only in gyms or on TV don’t understand what a rigorous workout it can be or how effective the resistance-based equipment is. I started just as an experiment to get in shape for skiing, but now, after only a few sessions, I am hooked on Pilates as my permanent fitness program.” J. H., age 59, corporate consultant, NYC