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Pilates began with springs in an internment camp

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If your expensive reformer class feels like a hostage situation, that is historically accurate. Joseph Pilates developed his famous conditioning routine while interned on the Isle of Man, using rigged springs from old mattresses to create resistance. You are paying eighty dollars an hour to recreate the workout of a literal prisoner of war.

Pilates began with springs in an internment camp
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