“John Howard Steel is a great writer with a fascinating tale to tell!”
—Anne Marie O’Connor, executive editor of Pilates Style magazine
The surprising story of Pilates—the man and the method. Part biography, part history, and part memoir, Caged Lion untangles for the first time Joseph Pilates’s opaque life story and the perilous journey of his exercise program known the world over as Pilates.
“John Steel’s vivid firsthand account of his unlikely friendship—and his life-changing workout routines—with the legendary Joseph Pilates reads like a ballet fairy tale. But it’s all true.”
—Todd S. Purdum, author of Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution
“This story is rich with suspense, intrigue, humor, and information about Joseph Pilates that you’ve never heard before.”
—Kristi Cooper, founder of Pilates Anytime
