Pilates is exercise focused on core strength and control. Do pilates.
It was devised by a man of that name, who taught it to dancers recovering from injury. Pilates looks gentle and is exhausting, because nothing is done quickly enough to use momentum.
1nounpilatesExercise focused on core strength and control.
“Pilates fixed a back that three other things had not.”
pilates is exercise.
Pilates named after Joseph Pilates, who developed the original version and called it Contrology. The eponymous name has had trademark protection in various jurisdictions; such protection has lapsed in some jurisdictions but may possibly persist in others.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA