BALANCED BODY PILATES COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔List 5 ways in which breathing facilitates movement - ✔✔1. Inhale facilitates spinal
extension
2. Exhale facilitates spinal flexion
3. Inhale facilitates spinal rotation
4. Exhale activates your core
5. The breath can increase/decrease muscle tone
✔✔Name 3 Pre-Pilates exercises for engaging the core - ✔✔1. Fingertip Abdominals
2. Breathing/Pelvic Floor Engagement
3. All Fours Abdominals
✔✔Name 6 Pre-Pilates exercises for increasing scapular mobility and stability - ✔✔1.
Telescope Arms - Shoulder Mobility
2. Sternum Drop - Scapular Stability
3. Angels in the Snow - Shoulder Mobility
4. Pinwheel - Mobility
5. Plank - Stability
6. Standing Wall Pushup - Stability
✔✔Name 4 Pre-Pilates Exercises for teaching pelvic stability - ✔✔1. Marching
2. Toe taps
3. Opposite Arm/Leg Reach
4. Marching in Bridge
✔✔Name 3 different stretching techniques - ✔✔1. Contract/Release
2. Active Isolated Stretch
3. Static Stretching
✔✔What was the name of Joseph Pilates wife? - ✔✔Clara
✔✔What did Joseph Pilates call his method? - ✔✔Contrology
✔✔Which of these mat exercises require caution for clients with low back problems?
-Spine Twist
-Rollover
-Neck Pull
-Leg Pull Down
-Side Bend
-Boomerang - ✔✔-Spine Twist
-Rollover
-Neck Pull
-Side Bend
, -Boomerang
✔✔Name 3 level 2 Mat exercises that increase scapular stability - ✔✔1. Hip circles
2. Corkscrew
3. Leg Pull Down
✔✔Does the diaphragm contract or release on inhalation? - ✔✔Contract
✔✔How would you modify Teaser for clients with tight hamstrings? - ✔✔-Bend knees
enough to balance in teaser position (connective tissue slack)
-Cue: Bring the thigh away to loosen the hips
✔✔Name at least 3 level 2 Mat exercises that require caution for clients with neck and
shoulder injuries - ✔✔1. Rollover
2. Advanced Corkscrew
3. Jackknife
4. Neckpull
5. Teaser
6. Boomerang
7. Hip Circles
8. Bicycle Shoulder Bridge
✔✔Name at least 3 level 2 Mat exercises that require caution for clients with wrist
injuries - ✔✔1. Leg Pull Up
2. Hips Circles
3. Leg Pull Down
4. Side Bend Series
5. Scissors
6. Kneeling Side Kicks
✔✔Name 4 Pilates Movement Principles and one Reformer exercise you would use to
teach that principle - ✔✔1. Lumbopelvic stability - Footwork
2. Abdominal Strengthening - Roll Down
3. Neutral Spine - Supine Arm Work
4. Scapular Stability - Kneeling abs with legs moving in and out
✔✔Placing the springs on the A or pre-loaded position on the Reformer makes the
resistance easier or harder - ✔✔Harder
✔✔List the color coding of the Balanced Body Reformer Springs from lightest to
heaviest - ✔✔Yellow
Blue
Red
Green
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔List 5 ways in which breathing facilitates movement - ✔✔1. Inhale facilitates spinal
extension
2. Exhale facilitates spinal flexion
3. Inhale facilitates spinal rotation
4. Exhale activates your core
5. The breath can increase/decrease muscle tone
✔✔Name 3 Pre-Pilates exercises for engaging the core - ✔✔1. Fingertip Abdominals
2. Breathing/Pelvic Floor Engagement
3. All Fours Abdominals
✔✔Name 6 Pre-Pilates exercises for increasing scapular mobility and stability - ✔✔1.
Telescope Arms - Shoulder Mobility
2. Sternum Drop - Scapular Stability
3. Angels in the Snow - Shoulder Mobility
4. Pinwheel - Mobility
5. Plank - Stability
6. Standing Wall Pushup - Stability
✔✔Name 4 Pre-Pilates Exercises for teaching pelvic stability - ✔✔1. Marching
2. Toe taps
3. Opposite Arm/Leg Reach
4. Marching in Bridge
✔✔Name 3 different stretching techniques - ✔✔1. Contract/Release
2. Active Isolated Stretch
3. Static Stretching
✔✔What was the name of Joseph Pilates wife? - ✔✔Clara
✔✔What did Joseph Pilates call his method? - ✔✔Contrology
✔✔Which of these mat exercises require caution for clients with low back problems?
-Spine Twist
-Rollover
-Neck Pull
-Leg Pull Down
-Side Bend
-Boomerang - ✔✔-Spine Twist
-Rollover
-Neck Pull
-Side Bend
, -Boomerang
✔✔Name 3 level 2 Mat exercises that increase scapular stability - ✔✔1. Hip circles
2. Corkscrew
3. Leg Pull Down
✔✔Does the diaphragm contract or release on inhalation? - ✔✔Contract
✔✔How would you modify Teaser for clients with tight hamstrings? - ✔✔-Bend knees
enough to balance in teaser position (connective tissue slack)
-Cue: Bring the thigh away to loosen the hips
✔✔Name at least 3 level 2 Mat exercises that require caution for clients with neck and
shoulder injuries - ✔✔1. Rollover
2. Advanced Corkscrew
3. Jackknife
4. Neckpull
5. Teaser
6. Boomerang
7. Hip Circles
8. Bicycle Shoulder Bridge
✔✔Name at least 3 level 2 Mat exercises that require caution for clients with wrist
injuries - ✔✔1. Leg Pull Up
2. Hips Circles
3. Leg Pull Down
4. Side Bend Series
5. Scissors
6. Kneeling Side Kicks
✔✔Name 4 Pilates Movement Principles and one Reformer exercise you would use to
teach that principle - ✔✔1. Lumbopelvic stability - Footwork
2. Abdominal Strengthening - Roll Down
3. Neutral Spine - Supine Arm Work
4. Scapular Stability - Kneeling abs with legs moving in and out
✔✔Placing the springs on the A or pre-loaded position on the Reformer makes the
resistance easier or harder - ✔✔Harder
✔✔List the color coding of the Balanced Body Reformer Springs from lightest to
heaviest - ✔✔Yellow
Blue
Red
Green
