Pilates was started by Joseph Pilates and has it's roots from the German Turnverien gymnastics school of the 1800's. Joseph was interned as a prisoner in England during WW1 and started to use his gymnastic and physical fitness knowledge to build a spring tension system to aid the rehabilitation of wounded German soldiers brought to the camp. The development of Pilates Method The Pilates Method started very much as a clinical method to help people get through aches and injuri