BALANCED BODY 2026 REVISION EXAM PAPER QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Control front
Control back
Tendon stretch
Snake
Twist
Star
Long box Grasshopper
Long back stretch (slide) - ✔✔6 exercises to avoid in reformer 3 with wrist injury
✔✔fingertip abdominals
All 4's abdominals (pregnant cat) - ✔✔2 prepilates exercises for engaging the core
✔✔pinwheels
Telescope arms
Sternum drops
Angels in the snow - ✔✔3 prepilates exercises for increasing scapular stability and
mobility
✔✔Pregnancy first 3 months - ✔✔Pelvic floor exercise
Strengthening adductors & abductors
Abdominal strengthening
Core stabilization
Arm & Upper back strengthening
Low back & chest flexibility
Decrease inversions
✔✔Pregnancy 3-4 months - ✔✔Discontinue prone work
Discontinue inversions
Develop stretches for low back
Comfortable abdominals
Maintain flexibility in abs - cat/cow
✔✔Pregnancy 4-5 months - ✔✔Discontinue supine or limit to 5 minutes, use a wedge
keep heart above the hips
Discontinue exercises that deeply work the psoas or hip flexors
Limit spinal rotation
Discount adductor exercises with resistance
✔✔Pregnancy 6-9 months - ✔✔Choose exercise that do not involve deep hip or lumbar
flexion
Wider leg position on the footbar
Emphasis on limbs rather than the core
, Increase stability of pelvis and hips
Light abductor exercises
Light abs upper body supported at 90
Gluteal & quad strengthening
Work upper arm & torso
✔✔Osteoporosis - ✔✔A condition in which the body's bones become weak and break
easily.
T score -1 to -2.5 osteopenia
Greater than -2.5 osteoporosis
DEXA - measures bone loss in relationship to normal bone mass
No forward flexion, flexion with rotation, loaded flexion
Should not be doing mat
Spinal extensions are great for someone with osteoporosis. Weight bearing exercises
are good.
✔✔Roll back
100
Shortbox, climb a tree
Coordination
Pulling straps, feet in straps, swan, bridging, knee stretch, jumping, short spine,
stomach massage
Long box backstroke, breaststroke, swimming,
Downstretch
Semi circle, corkscrew, rowing front - ✔✔3 reformer exercises that require caution for
clients with low back pain.
✔✔Short spine, coordination, all long box, semi circle, arabesque, chest expansion,
kneeling side arms,
Rowing, corkscrew, knee stretches - ✔✔3 reformer exercises that require caution or
modification for clients with neck & shoulder injury
✔✔Deep Longitudinal System - ✔✔Erector spinal - muscles that straighten and rotate
the back
Quadratus lumborum - deep abdominal muscle, posterior abdominal wall. Commonly
referred as back muscle
Thoracolumbar fascia - Lower back
Sacrotuberous ligament - lower back & part of the pelvis
Bicep femoris - muscle of thigh located to the back
Two columns of support along back of legs & sides of spine. Tie together the whole
back of the body
✔✔Long spine
AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Control front
Control back
Tendon stretch
Snake
Twist
Star
Long box Grasshopper
Long back stretch (slide) - ✔✔6 exercises to avoid in reformer 3 with wrist injury
✔✔fingertip abdominals
All 4's abdominals (pregnant cat) - ✔✔2 prepilates exercises for engaging the core
✔✔pinwheels
Telescope arms
Sternum drops
Angels in the snow - ✔✔3 prepilates exercises for increasing scapular stability and
mobility
✔✔Pregnancy first 3 months - ✔✔Pelvic floor exercise
Strengthening adductors & abductors
Abdominal strengthening
Core stabilization
Arm & Upper back strengthening
Low back & chest flexibility
Decrease inversions
✔✔Pregnancy 3-4 months - ✔✔Discontinue prone work
Discontinue inversions
Develop stretches for low back
Comfortable abdominals
Maintain flexibility in abs - cat/cow
✔✔Pregnancy 4-5 months - ✔✔Discontinue supine or limit to 5 minutes, use a wedge
keep heart above the hips
Discontinue exercises that deeply work the psoas or hip flexors
Limit spinal rotation
Discount adductor exercises with resistance
✔✔Pregnancy 6-9 months - ✔✔Choose exercise that do not involve deep hip or lumbar
flexion
Wider leg position on the footbar
Emphasis on limbs rather than the core
, Increase stability of pelvis and hips
Light abductor exercises
Light abs upper body supported at 90
Gluteal & quad strengthening
Work upper arm & torso
✔✔Osteoporosis - ✔✔A condition in which the body's bones become weak and break
easily.
T score -1 to -2.5 osteopenia
Greater than -2.5 osteoporosis
DEXA - measures bone loss in relationship to normal bone mass
No forward flexion, flexion with rotation, loaded flexion
Should not be doing mat
Spinal extensions are great for someone with osteoporosis. Weight bearing exercises
are good.
✔✔Roll back
100
Shortbox, climb a tree
Coordination
Pulling straps, feet in straps, swan, bridging, knee stretch, jumping, short spine,
stomach massage
Long box backstroke, breaststroke, swimming,
Downstretch
Semi circle, corkscrew, rowing front - ✔✔3 reformer exercises that require caution for
clients with low back pain.
✔✔Short spine, coordination, all long box, semi circle, arabesque, chest expansion,
kneeling side arms,
Rowing, corkscrew, knee stretches - ✔✔3 reformer exercises that require caution or
modification for clients with neck & shoulder injury
✔✔Deep Longitudinal System - ✔✔Erector spinal - muscles that straighten and rotate
the back
Quadratus lumborum - deep abdominal muscle, posterior abdominal wall. Commonly
referred as back muscle
Thoracolumbar fascia - Lower back
Sacrotuberous ligament - lower back & part of the pelvis
Bicep femoris - muscle of thigh located to the back
Two columns of support along back of legs & sides of spine. Tie together the whole
back of the body
✔✔Long spine
