PEAK PILATES STUDY GUIDE LEVEL 1 Exam | Questions & 100% Correct Answers (Verified) | Latest Update | Grade A+

A concept that describes how each exercise is stabilized by the powerhouse and supported by critical connections Correct Answer: anchoring stacking one vertebrae at a time, lifting bone by bone, or rolling down and releasing the vertebrae onto the mat one vertebrae at a time Correct Answer: Articulate/Segment Rectangle formed by 2 imaginary lines running from shoulder to shoulder and from hip to hip and completed by 2 lines running from shoulder to hip Correct Answer: Box simpler versions of an exercise "stepping stone" Correct Answer: building blocks 2 shape the spine and body assume during many Pilates exercises. Created by deep pull of the transverse abdominus wrapping around the spine and opening the spinal column in flexion Correct Answer: C Curve the line running downward from the nose, navel, and pubic bone to the heels Correct Answer: centerline a symptom or health condition that makes a particular exercise inadvisable or unsuitable for a student to perform Correct Answer: contraindications connections that deepen the work in the powerhouse and improve execution. 1. Three Anchors 2. Rib to scapula/scapula to rib 3. heel and buttock connection Correct Answer: Critical Connections What are the three critical connections? Correct Answer: Three anchors, rib to scapula/scapula to rib, heel and buttock connection The action of elongating and creating space between the vertebrae Correct Answer: Decompression 3 A way to approach and cue rolling the spine segments: tailbone to top of pelvis, top of pelvis to base of sternum, bottom of ribs, and bottom of ribs to skull Correct Answer: Dividing the Spine Into Thirds Image of buttons pressing from front to back and back to front through the body Correct Answer: Five Buttons What are the 5 buttons Correct Answer: 1. Pubic bone 2. Sacral Level 3. Navel 4. Xiphoid Process 5. Breastbone The Peak Pilates Principles include what two things? Correct Answer: Pilates Principles and 5 parts of the mind The five Pilates Principle