Legacy Pilates Apparatus Blog

Before it was called Pilates, it was called Contrology. Joseph Pilates never used his own name for the method he spent a lifetime building. He called it Contrology, and the word was not a brand. It was a description of exactly what the work is: the study, and the practice, of control. Understanding that...

Of all the apparatus Joseph Pilates designed, the Foot Corrector is the one most likely to be overlooked. It is small enough to sit in a drawer, it holds only a handful of exercises, and the paddle barely moves when you use it correctly. It is also, in the view of a lot of...

Back pain is the leading cause of disability in the world, and most cases are not caused by a structural problem a scan can find. That distinction matters, because it is precisely the kind of back pain that responds to movement. The difficulty is that when your back hurts, most movement feels risky, and...

Search for the Pilates Cadillac and the results say much the same thing. It is the most versatile apparatus in the studio. It carries the widest repertoire. It resembles a four poster frame raised off the floor. All of that is true, and none of it helps a studio owner about to spend several...

The Wunda Chair is the most misunderstood apparatus in the classical Pilates studio. It occupies less floor space than a bathroom mat, weighs about as much as a large suitcase, and produces some of the hardest work in the entire method. Studios that have one often use a fraction of its repertoire. Studios that...