BASI PILATES REFORMER EXAM SCRIPT
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
●● What did Pilates do in England?
Answer: Worked was a war camp with rehab for sick and disabled
●● When did he come to America?
Answer: Came to NYC in 1926
●● What is controlology?
Answer: When stabilizing muscle groups are encouraged to work
isometrically to maintain correct positioning and alignment.
●● What are the 10 principles of Pilates?
Answer: Awareness
Balance
Breath
Concentration
Center
Control
Efficiency
,Flow
Precision
Harmony
(all bad bitches can call Christy especially for precision and harmony)
●● When are you in neutral pelvis?
Answer: When the ASIS and pubic symphysis is on the same horizontal
plane and two ASIS are on the same transverse plane
●● Can the spine be neutral when the pelvis is not?
Answer: When the spine is in neutral the pelvis must be neutral,
however, the pelvis may be neutral when the spine is not
●● What are the pros of using a neutral pelvis?
Answer: encourages muscular development and correct muscle
recruitment
teaches efficient posture and ideal alignment
pelvis alignment influences body segments above and below it
●● What are the benefits of breathing in Pilates?
Answer: -oxygenates blood
-improve circulation
-calm the mind and body
,-encourage concentration
-recruit the appropriate muscles for the movements
-provide an 'inner' rhythm for the movements
●● What happens during the breathing cycle?
Answer: inhale- diaphragm lowers and enlarges cavity. pressure inside
the lungs is lower than the pressure outside
exhale- diaphragm relaxes and decreases volume of cavity. increases
pressure of the lungs and equalizes the pressure to the outside (air is
forced out)
●● How much of the respiratory effort is the diaphragm responsible for?
Answer: 75%
●● What kind of breathing does Pilates use? and why?
Answer: lateral breathing of "intercostal breathing". it maintains ab
contraction while performing exercises during inhalation.
●● What is shaped breathing?
Answer: using breathing patterns
●● What is Muscle Focus?
, Answer: the muscle or group of muscles that is the primary focus of the
exercise
●● What are Objectives?
Answer: the objective describes the action of the muscle being used.
although there may be one muscle focus, there could be many
objectives.
●● What are the Cues?
Answer: Cues are the actual execution of the exercise. precision
provides results. Cue is to communicate which leads to good
understanding which leads to success
●● What are Movers?
Answer: generating or controlling movement
●● What are the Antagonists?
Answer: actions oposite to movers
●● What are the Synergists?
Answer: neutralizes undesired actions of movers
●● What are the Stabilizers?
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
●● What did Pilates do in England?
Answer: Worked was a war camp with rehab for sick and disabled
●● When did he come to America?
Answer: Came to NYC in 1926
●● What is controlology?
Answer: When stabilizing muscle groups are encouraged to work
isometrically to maintain correct positioning and alignment.
●● What are the 10 principles of Pilates?
Answer: Awareness
Balance
Breath
Concentration
Center
Control
Efficiency
,Flow
Precision
Harmony
(all bad bitches can call Christy especially for precision and harmony)
●● When are you in neutral pelvis?
Answer: When the ASIS and pubic symphysis is on the same horizontal
plane and two ASIS are on the same transverse plane
●● Can the spine be neutral when the pelvis is not?
Answer: When the spine is in neutral the pelvis must be neutral,
however, the pelvis may be neutral when the spine is not
●● What are the pros of using a neutral pelvis?
Answer: encourages muscular development and correct muscle
recruitment
teaches efficient posture and ideal alignment
pelvis alignment influences body segments above and below it
●● What are the benefits of breathing in Pilates?
Answer: -oxygenates blood
-improve circulation
-calm the mind and body
,-encourage concentration
-recruit the appropriate muscles for the movements
-provide an 'inner' rhythm for the movements
●● What happens during the breathing cycle?
Answer: inhale- diaphragm lowers and enlarges cavity. pressure inside
the lungs is lower than the pressure outside
exhale- diaphragm relaxes and decreases volume of cavity. increases
pressure of the lungs and equalizes the pressure to the outside (air is
forced out)
●● How much of the respiratory effort is the diaphragm responsible for?
Answer: 75%
●● What kind of breathing does Pilates use? and why?
Answer: lateral breathing of "intercostal breathing". it maintains ab
contraction while performing exercises during inhalation.
●● What is shaped breathing?
Answer: using breathing patterns
●● What is Muscle Focus?
, Answer: the muscle or group of muscles that is the primary focus of the
exercise
●● What are Objectives?
Answer: the objective describes the action of the muscle being used.
although there may be one muscle focus, there could be many
objectives.
●● What are the Cues?
Answer: Cues are the actual execution of the exercise. precision
provides results. Cue is to communicate which leads to good
understanding which leads to success
●● What are Movers?
Answer: generating or controlling movement
●● What are the Antagonists?
Answer: actions oposite to movers
●● What are the Synergists?
Answer: neutralizes undesired actions of movers
●● What are the Stabilizers?
