Ken Endelman
KEN ENDELMAN
FOUNDER & PRESIDENT
BALANCED BODY
Ken Endelman founded Balanced Body in 1976 after a Pilates instructor visited his furniture store in Hollywood, California and asked him to build an improved version of a Pilates Reformer. At the time, there were less than a dozen Pilates studios worldwide.
After several months studying the Pilates methodology and the original apparatus built by Joseph Pilates, Ken designed a modern Reformer that was reliable, safe and user-friendly for contemporary practitioners. This resulted in a new career for Ken, and a revolution in the mind-body exercise community. Under Endelman’s leadership over the past 45+ years, Balanced Body has grown into the world’s largest resource for Pilates equipment and education.
Endelman has collaborated with Pilates educators, studio owners, fitness club operators, physical therapists, athletic trainers and home users to create equipment that combines Joseph Pilates original designs with our modern understanding of human biomechanics. His innovations have been awarded over 43 patents in the United States and hundreds more worldwide.
Balanced Body’s motto – Movement Changes Lives – supports Endelman’s goal to make Pilates a part of everyone’s lives. Today, Balanced Body promotes the benefits of Pilates at more than 20 conferences per year. Endelman has authored articles on a wide variety of topics relating to both technical and business aspects of Pilates equipment and programs, was a 2018 guest lecturer at the University of Hong Kong School of Science and Technology and is a frequent presenter at Pilates and fitness conferences around the world.
A longtime member of the International Association for Dance Medicine & Science and the Pilates Method Alliance, Endelman has completed in-depth educational seminars with a number of renowned Pilates senior master trainers. He is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles. He’s also passionate about building a sustainable company for future generations —and “walks the talk” by cycling to work nearly every day!