八十歲的Joe Pilates保持健康

The Miami Florida Saturday April 08 1961

-- Heraid Staff Photo by BOB EAST

Eighty-Year-Old Joe Pilates Keeps Healthy

'exercise, exercise,' he tells Mrs. Bruce Roberts

Joe Pilates Has the Answer To U.S. Fitness, He Says

By JOHN UNDERWOOD Herald Staff Writer

Joseph Pilates has a body that looks as though it was carved from mahagony, with veins and sprigs of hair brushed on. He wears a powder blue bikini to show it off. Joe Pilates is 80 years old.

"If Al Smith and Wagner had listened to me," he says, his voice like trumpets, "Amer. ica would be the healthiest in the world. Now what are we? Third class. THIRD CLASS. By 1975 we are finished."

Joe pounds his great wide chest. His one good blue eye narrows. His white hair, feathery on end, shakes AS if in fear of the rumbling underneath.

"When doctors cut open a man today, what do they find inside? Garbage. Here, hit me in the stomach. You can't hurt me. Not with a sledge hammer. You could drive a truck over me.

"I never spent a dime on a doctor. Not a dime.

"What I need is a college with professors to teach my methods. One thousand instructors. We could have a new race."

Joe Pilates is the originator of "contrology," his method of exercise through complete body control.

He also claims to be the first judo expert and the originator of "almost everything" weightlifters do today.

He makes no claims on humbleness. He is an unabashed, uncontrollable extrovert. The kind of person who draws crowds.

It was on the yacht of a friend, that Pilates was found Friday at Dinner Key. He's vacationing from New York, and charming pier with his Teutonic boasting and his intriguing repertoire of body dynamics.

Sometime this summer, he is supposed to have an audience with President Kennedy to discuss the fitness or lack of it - of the American people.

"Thirty-four exercises a day," he advises. "For you, 10 minutes, in the morning, 10 at Streeetch, like this. Breath deeply. Whoosssh! (In). Whooossh! (Out). Dat's it.

Complete control. Like an animal."

Pilates, who came to the U.S. in 1925, says he and his brother are what's. left of the Pontias Pilate line ("we started in Greece, then to Rome, and wound up in Germany") and his early days were fraught with strife.

"Kids always saying, *ya-ya, crucifier, crucifier! One time they held me and hit me with a sharp stone. I lost my right eye because of it. I was five years old."

In World War I, he was in a German internment camp on the Isle of Man, England.

"There was no medicine, so we gave everybody colored water. Flat feet .. .

liver . . . no matter, they got a bottle. But in the morning, they e exercised. My exercises, Everywhere else they were dying like flies. In my compound, nobody died. You have no idea how many lives I saved."

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Joseph Pilates 的身體看起來就像是用桃花心木雕刻而成的，上面佈滿了靜脈和一縷頭髮。他穿著粉藍色比基尼來炫耀。喬普拉提已經 80 歲了。

“如果阿爾·史密斯和瓦格納聽了我的意見，”他的聲音像喇叭一樣響亮，“美國將是世界上最健康的國家。現在我們是什麼樣？三等公民。三等公民。到 1975 年我們就完了。”

喬捶打著自己寬闊的胸膛。他那隻漂亮的藍色眼睛瞇了起來。他那白色的頭髮，羽毛般豎立著，顫抖著，彷彿害怕下面的隆隆聲。

「如今，當醫生切開一個人的肚子時，他們發現裡面有什麼？垃圾。來，打我的肚子。你傷不了我。用大錘也傷不了我。你可以開卡車碾過我。」「我從來沒有花一分錢看醫生。一分錢​​也沒有。

“我需要的是一所擁有教授傳授我的方法的大學。一千名教員。這樣我們就可以擁有一個新的種族。”

喬·普拉提 (Joe Pilates) 是「控制學」的創始人，他採用的是透過完全控制身體來進行鍛鍊的方法。

他也自稱是第一位柔道專家和當今舉重運動員「幾乎所有」動作的創始人。

他並不自詡謙卑。他是個毫無羞恥、難以控制的外向者。吸引人群的那種人。

星期五，在 Dinner Key 的一位朋友的遊艇上，發現了普拉提。他從紐約來度假，他的日耳曼式的吹噓和令人著迷的身體動態表演使他成為了迷人的碼頭。

今年夏天的某個時候，他將會見甘迺迪總統，討論美國人民的健康與否。

他建議：“每天運動三十四次。” 「對你來說，早上 10 分鐘，在 Streeetch 10 分鐘，像這樣。深呼吸。呼！（吸氣）。呼！（呼氣）。就是這樣。完全控制。像動物一樣。”

普拉提在 1925 年來到美國，他說他和他的兄弟就是這樣的。他脫離了本篤彼拉多的宗派（「我們從希臘開始，然後到羅馬，最後到達德國」），他的早年生活充滿了紛爭。

「孩子們總是說，*呀呀，釘十字架的人，釘十字架的人！有一次他們抓住我，用一塊尖銳的石頭打我。我因此失去了右眼。當時我只有五歲。”

第一次世界大戰期間，他被關在英國馬恩島的德國拘留營。

「沒有藥，所以我們給每個人喝彩色水。扁平足……肝臟……沒關係，他們得到一瓶。但早上，他們鍛煉身體。我的鍛煉，在其他地方，他們像蒼蠅一樣死去。在我的院子裡，沒有人死亡。你不知道我救了多少人的生命。”