Crossword clues for pilates
pilates
- Popular modern exercise system
- Conditioning system
- Pontius et al.
- Exercise system — various courses about one
- System of exercises and dishes containing iodine
- Form of exercise is source of inflammation in Cockney's feet
- Holistic system of physical exercises
- Exercise system
- Exercise regimen
- Fitness regimen first called Contrology
- Core-strengthening exercises
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1980, physical fitness regimen developed c.1920 by German-born physical fitness teacher Joseph Pilates (1883-1967).
Wiktionary
n. (alternative case form of Pilates English)
Wikipedia
Pilates (; ) is a physical fitness system developed in the early 20th century by Joseph Pilates. Pilates called his method "Contrology." It is practiced worldwide, and especially in western countries such as Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. As of 2005, there were 11 million people practicing the discipline regularly and 14,000 instructors in the United States.
There is limited evidence to support the use of Pilates to alleviate low back pain, improve strength, and prevent elderly people from falling. It has not been shown to be an effective treatment for any medical condition.
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.