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Usage examples of pilates.

She likes Pilates because it isn't, in the way she thinks of yoga, meditative.

She carefully raises her head, as she'd do in Pilates in preparation for the Hundred, and sees that her arms at least are there, or seem to be, beneath a thin gray blanket and a folded edge of white sheet, but that there are two restraining bands of gray webbing, one just below her shoulders and the other just below her elbows.

Susie’s grown into a real beauty, and lost every bit of her baby fat (Dottie says because she does Pilates three times a week and hasn’t touched a carb in three years).

I can barely make it into a squat during Pilates, and that’s in drawstring pants.

All the women he’d been with lately had had a distinct preference for Pilates over self-defense.

Lou evidently wasn’t the Pilates type—he followed her over the rise, noticing that the snow was starting to fall more thickly than ever.

She sat on the living-room floor, in front of the TV, following along with a Pilates tape.

You had an army of Pilates washing their hands in billions of vessels.