Your Health: A Corrective System of Exercising that Revolutionizes the Entire Field of Physical Education Paperback – Illustrated, December 31, 1998

Though his writing is somewhat tough to read…the way he arranges sentences is now outdated, the information and evidence to support his claims still stands. Joseph Pilates was radical and revolutionary. Way ahead of his time.

Good read for those interested in the story of Joseph Pilates.

I enjoyed this book it helped me to understand the importance of muscles and movement. As a beginner I i realized I wasn’t a war veteran but I too could heal my body and that is the goal.

Spinal alignment, correct breathing, and the importance of fresh air and natural exercise are principles too often forgotten into today's fitness landscape. I'm interested to dive deeper into these concepts to restore vitality to myself and those I work with

I can almost hear Tucker Carlson talking about vaccines and how men have lost their virility. Included illustrations and photographs are very small and very low resolution. Black and white photographs of him are much higher resolution on the interwebs. More typos than expected, perhaps a German accent coming through and a little 1933 Germany flavor coming through. Granted, this era was fraught with medical ignorance with sanitariums, lobotomies, electroshock therapy, thalidomide and smoking doctors and all that medical malpractice back in the days not to mention malnutrition and coal air pollution. I can understand his disdain for the medical field or "health authorities" as he puts it. He credits the Greeks with a lot of knowledge that they merely passed on from previous civilizations (now I understand why -- his father was born in Greece). The Romans were scantily clad as well, and surely had a healthy levels of vitamin D (and Gladiators!), but Romans get no credit. Pilates realized the importance of vitamin D and exposure to the sun but not a huge leap for earthbound creatures. In sum, I agree with his description of the medical field's sad state of affairs, world war and poor economics in the era of The Great Depressions etc.. But, as required reading, this book was not complimentary to Joseph Pilates or not additive to the science as a student of Pilates. Not recommended as the first introduction to Joseph Pilates. He may blame his mother for the state of his health and may have been referencing to himself as the baby in restraints. I wished Joseph Pilates had been more scientific and less "preachy" as he recalls his medical field counterparts. He almost comes across as a traveling circus character with an entourage of singers, actors and dancers who naturally inherited and extended Pilates into what it is today.

Don’t buy. Rent from the library if you can. Skipping altogether is more highly recommended.Dude is foul and not the least bit demonstrative with real unbiased facts of his meandering and belabored bad logic.Correlation isn’t causation.I’m glad the Pilates I’ve done doesn’t sound like any of this utter foolishness. Asinine nonsenseThe only good words in the whole book: mind and body balance...proper breathing (or something of the sort)...Promote what you believe/love without insulting its opposite.

It is the Original Pilates program. Got it more for reference than to use at this time. I am doing Callanetics and love them. But I wanted to know more about Pilates to see if I want to graduate on to Pilates in the future.

Disappointing content, really high-level. I expected to read more about the actual physical exercises behind the Pilates method. I don’t recommend this book.