In a bid to win attention for the launch of a new London Pilates studio, we latched onto the 500th anniversary of Michelangelo’s David, the world’s most famous sculpture, and – allegedly – the epitome of male physical perfection.
‘Nonsense!’, said Alan Herdman, the Pilates guru with the new studio, that we got to assess David’s physique. In fact, David would have been ‘a physical wreck’, with a bad lower back, a weak hip and ankles and all the flexibility of… well, a 500 year-old, 17 ft stone statue.
