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1. Where was Joseph Pilates born?
Answer Germany
2. Who inspired Joseph's passion for movement?
Answer His Parents and their active & healthy lifestyles
People "doing" life
Animals in nature
3. What item inspired Joseph to build the reformer?
Answer a hospital bed
4. Joseph Pilates died of natural causes in the late 90's
Answer False
5. Joseph Pilates has always referred to his work as "Pilates"
Answer False called it contrology
6. What does the "O" stand for in SOAP?
, Answer objective
7. Which is the best choice to elicit an objective response?"
Answer On a scale of 1-10, how is that shoulder feeling today?"
8. What details must be included in the "P" of SOAP?
Answer The plan for your client. I'll make sure to include the list of moves, apparatus used, reps of movement and
modifications
9. As long as you are cueing safely, there is no need to do assessments and re-
assessments with your clients.
Answer False
10. True or False If I start teaching at a studio, it is the studio management's
responsibility to make sure the equipment in the studio is safe and well main- tained.
Answer True
11. What is the right CLASSICAL order of Jospeh's first 5 mat moves?
Answer Hundred, Roll Up, Roll Over, One Leg Circle, Rolling Like a Ball
12. Which movements and or milestones will your client need to have accom- plished in
order to try Crab?
Answer Rolling Like a Ball. They need to have no back or spine issues.
13. What order of movement should be your goal in each class?
,Answer Flexion, Extension, Lateral Rotation, Transverse Rotation
14. Mat work is the most simple Pilates practice.
Answer False
15. The following would be a good example of using the "P" in PEACE RR.
Answer "Start in supine, on your back with your heels on the center of the foot bar about 3 inches apart. Your back should be
relaxed and your shoulders should not be pressing against the rests."
16. Always suggest that clients use a thin mat or towel for their Pilates mat classes. It
doesn't have to be a thick mat, it should just cover the area under your client's body.
Answer False - thick mat
17. What is the best way to warm up an elderly class?
Answer Ground based pelvic rocks followed by single leg stretch keeping the head down
18. What exercises does your client have to master before they should try the
Boomerang?
Answer Roll over and Teaser
19. Swimming
Answer hunch shoulders
20. Pelvic rocks or tilts
Answer post natal (light work out)
, 21. hip replacement
Answer single leg circle
22. corkscrew
Answer young athlete that does yoga
23. After warming up my small group mat class, I plan on having
them do to get the back of their body and then
to get the from of their body.
Answer Bridge variations and Hundreds
24. Having both legs in table top is considered a closed kinetic chain and this is good for
clients with low back issues.
Answer False
25. A client comes to see you and upon first evaluation you see that they have a major
anterior tilt in their pelvis and no injuries in the past. They haven't worked out for 4
years and they have been cleared for an easy start back into fitness. What moves
would you make sure to teach them in their first work out?
Answer roll up, Roll Like a Ball, Plank
26. During the chest lift, the client should maintain their neutral pelvis.
Answer True