Joseph Pilates included standing work, floor work, and several kinds of equipment, including reformers. He also used the Cadillac table with lots of pieces of equipment on it's frame, two different chairs, a wall tower and one that attached to the top end of the reformer, arc barrels, ladder barrels, circles, a T-shaped tower with springs on the arms, grids of bars on the wall, spring boards on the wall and more. It's actually a pretty complex and extensive system, which is why the certification for being a Pilates instructor takes 700 hours of training.
The floor work reputedly was originally designed to be used when a reformer wasn't available. Some of the moves are actually harder on the floor.
I took almost 20 years of one-on-one sessions at two different Romana/Authentic Pilates affiliated studios, one a training center, and there was a lot of equipment.
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Karen Jo
I now have a doctor's order to never again do push ups (yippee!)
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