Contents 1 History of Joseph Pilates 2 The Birth of the Reformer 3 What is a Pilates Reformer? 4 Benefits of Pilates 5 Joseph Pilates vs. Jane Fonda 6 Practice Pilates at Home with the Pilates Reformer History of Joseph Pilates No description of the history of Pilates is possible without the mention of its inventor Joseph Pilates , born 1880, in a very small town near Düsseldorf, Germany. Joseph Pilates was a sickly child who, unfortunately, suffered from rickets, asthma and excruciating rheumatic fever. He had to suffer insults in his early …