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During the First World War, he was interned with other German nationals. During this time he developed his technique of physical fitness further, by teaching his fellow internees. During the latter part of the War, he served as an orderly in a hospital on the Isle of Man where he worked with patients unable to walk. He attached bed springs to the hospital beds to help support the patients' limbs, leading to the development of his famous piece of equipment known as the 'Cadillac'. Much of his equipment, although slightly adapted, is still in use today in many Pilates Studios.
Pilates emigrated to the USA in the early s with his wife Clara, and together they developed and taught the method in their 'body-conditioning gym' in New York in The studio featured much of the Apparatus designed to enhance his rehabilitation work.
It soon became very popular, particularly with the dance community, as it offered a chance to improve technique or recover from injury. In , aged 32, he left Germany for this country, where he became a professional boxer. An expert skier and diver, it was in England that he taught self-defence to Scotland Yard detectives and found work as a circus acrobat.
He used his time as an internee to start developing a new approach to exercise and body-conditioning — the start of what is known today as Pilates. During his internment, he also got the chance to work as a nurse. This, in turn, gave him the chance to experiment by attaching springs to hospital beds, so that patients could start toning their muscles even while they were still bed-bound.
Such were the origins of the first Pilates machines now known as the Pilates reformer. In their early incarnation the Pilates reformer was shaped like a sliding bed and used springs as resistance. Joseph Pilates developed his work from a strong passion for health and fitness. Unhealthy as a child, he was fascinated by methods of self-improvement. Pilates takes inspiration from eastern practices and Zen Buddhism, and Joseph was inspired by the ancient Greek ideal of man perfected in development of body, mind and spirit.
On his way to developing his method, Joseph studied anatomy and developed himself as a bodybuilder, a wrestler, a gymnast, a boxer, a skier and a diver. As the world outside the internment camp changed forever, Joseph Pilates kept busy supporting the rehabilitation of his fellow detainees, many of whom were suffering from diseases and injuries. It was invention born of necessity that inspired Joseph to use items that were readily available to him to create resistance exercise equipment for his patients.
Much of the equipment we use today - including the reformer, the cadillac and the magic circle - were invented in this way. When the war ended, Joseph Pilates briefly returned to Germany where his reputation as a physical trainer and healer preceded him.
Here, he took up a short contract with the military police, teaching self-defense and physical training.
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