Pilates is a physical fitness system developed in the early 20th century by Joseph Pilates. It is a safe and sensible exercise system that helps improve flexibility, agility, and can alleviate back pain. Pilates benefits include building muscle strength, flexibility, and endurance in the legs, core, arms, hips, and back. Pilates is more than just an exercise method, but a way of life that bridges functional movement and engaged thinking.

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4. Pilates is a physical fitness system
developed in the early 20th century by
Joseph Pilates, and popular in many
countries , including Germany,
the United States and the United Kingdom.

5. It is a safe, sensible
exercise system that will
help your body look fit
and firm. Pilates also
improves flexibility, agility
and economy of motion. It
can even help alleviate
back pain.

6. • Benefits of Pilates : Pilates is
a body conditioning routine that may
help build flexibility, muscle strength,
and endurance in
the legs, abdominals, arms, hips,
and back.

7. Pilates Lifestyle : Pilates is much more
than an exercise method - it is a way of life.
A fusion of the mind and body based on the
reawakening of dormant muscle and brain
cells, Pilates gives us the opportunity to live
a life where the gap between functional
motion and enlivened thought has been
bridged.

8. Vocabulary
• Sensible - showing reason or sound
judgment.
• Flexibility – the property of being flexible;
easily bent or shaped.
• Agility – the gracefulness of a person/animal
that is quick and nimble.

9. • Alleviate – provide physical relief , as
from pain.
• Routine – an unvarying or habitual
method or procedure.
• Abdominals – the muscles of the
abdomen.

10. • Endurance – the power to withstand
hardship or stress.
• Dormant – in a condition of biological rest
or suspended animation.
• Enlivened – made spirited and cheerful.