Pilates Historics™ Is all about discovering and learning about the history of Joe's Contrology®. One way to do this is by looking into historical exercises before contrology was developed to see how Joe may have been influenced in developing his system.  

This is a book my Grandmother gave me when I was in Physical Therapy school almost 40 years ago. After reciving this and seeing all the old pictures of exercise I started collecting old books on Exercise, Medicine and Health and now have a library in the thousands. This book originally was owned by my Great Grandfater Witmer Breneman and his stamp was in the pages in the front and back of the book.

It's so amazing to see so many of the return to life exercises that are so similar to what is in this book printed 7 years before Joe came to the US and so many other exercise books that were printed in the US decades before he arrived that also have exercises similar to what he put into RTL.