The Acrobatic Immigrant Who Invented Pilates in a Prisoner of War Camp

Interned during WWI, circus entertainer Joseph Pilates used found materials and his fellow prisoners as his test lab, and imagined an exercise system that would captivate millions.

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TIL that the fitness system pilates was developed by German boxer and circus performer Joseph Pilates while he was in a British internment camp during World War I. He developed the system

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