Today marks the anniversary of the day Joseph Pilates passed away.
There are many legends surrounding his death, but it seems that his death was the result of respiratory failure - due to the exposure to smoke inhalation during a fire in the building where he worked and lived, as well as years of smoking cigars. Ironically, despite his emphasis on proper breathing technique and improvement of lung efficiency, it appears that he suffered from emphysema.
I’m naive, but I had no idea the name PIlates was from someone. Silly me.
You learn something new every day! The story how it evolved it actually very interesting.