Table of Contents

Return to Life Through Contrology -- Civilisation Impairs Physical Fitness; Contrology Restores Physical Fitness; Guiding Principles of Contrology; Bodily House-cleaning with Blood Circulation; Results of Contrology. THE EXERCISES -- The Hundred; The Roll Up; The Roll-Over with Legs Spread (Both Ways); The One Leg Circle (Both Ways); Rolling Back; The One Leg Stretch; The Double Leg Stretch; The Spine Stretch; Rocker with Open Legs; The Cork-Screw; The Saw; The Swan-Dive; The One Leg Kick; The Double Kick; The Neck Pull; The Scissors; The Bicycle; The Shoulder Bridge; The Spine Twist; The Jack Knife; The Side Kick; The Teaser; The Hip Twist with Stretched Arms; Swimming; The Leg-Pull - Front; The Leg-Pull; The Side Kick Kneeling; The Side Bend; The Boomerang; The Seal; The Crab; The Rocking; The Control Balance; The Push Up. YOUR HEALTH -- A Grave Situation; Health - A Normal-Natural Condition; Dreadful Conditions; Heading Downward; Common-Sense Remedies for Common Human Ills!; "Contrology"; 'Balance of Body and Mind"; First Educate the Child!; Proved Facts!; New Style Beds and Chairs.

About the Author

At the beginning of the First World War, Joseph Pilates was imprisoned in England along with many Germans who happened to be living at the time in and around Lancaster, England. He was a German national who had been boxing and performing in England prior to 1914. While living in the Camp, he taught other residents the series of exercises that he had developed for personal use over the preceding decades both in Germany and in England. His own exercise sets drew strongly from his studies of yoga and Zen, as well as ancient Roman and Greek exercise regimens.