While interned in a World War I camp in England, a German fitness enthusiast named Joseph Pilates developed a series of strengthening exercises that even his injured comrades could perform from bed.

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A pilates teacher says its history of being devised at a Manx wartime internment camp inspired her.

If it feels like everyone is talking non-stop about Pilates, it’s because they are. The practice has had a stratospheric rise in popularity in the last few years, in no short thanks to the efficacy of ...