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Peak Pilates Study Guide Level 1
Questions and Answer | Latest
Update 2024/2025
A concept that describes how each exercise is stabilized by the powerhouse
and supported by critical connections
✓ ~~> 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
✓ ~~> 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
✓ ~~> Box
simpler versions of an exercise "stepping stone"
✓ ~~> building blocks
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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
✓ ~~> C Curve
the line running downward from the nose, navel, and pubic bone to the heels
✓ ~~> centerline
a symptom or health condition that makes a particular exercise inadvisable
or unsuitable for a student to perform
✓ ~~> 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
✓ ~~> Critical Connections
What are the three critical connections?
✓ ~~> Three anchors, rib to scapula/scapula to rib, heel and buttock
connection
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The action of elongating and creating space between the vertebrae
✓ ~~> Decompression
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
✓ ~~> Dividing the Spine Into Thirds
Image of buttons pressing from front to back and back to front through the
body
✓ ~~> Five Buttons
What are the 5 buttons
✓ ~~> 1. Pubic bone 2. Sacral Level 3. Navel 4. Xiphoid Process 5.
Breastbone
The Peak Pilates Principles include what two things?
✓ ~~> Pilates Principles and 5 parts of the mind
The five Pilates Principles
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✓ ~~> Concentration, Centering, Control, Breathing, Precision, Flowing
Movement
The 5 parts of the mind
✓ ~~> Intelligence, Memory, Imagination, Intuition, Will/Desire
The PPC1 Session Format
✓ ~~> a. Mat (15-20 minutes)
b. Reformer (20 minutes)
c. Individual Needs (10 minutes)
d. Endings (5 minutes)
Parts ___ and ___ of the Session Format are interchangeable.
✓ ~~> A, B
This Pilates Principle is useful in rehabbing an injury;
✓ ~~> Precision
Pilates believed in beginning the lesson lying down because?
Master01 | September, 2024/2025 | Latest update
Peak Pilates Study Guide Level 1
Questions and Answer | Latest
Update 2024/2025
A concept that describes how each exercise is stabilized by the powerhouse
and supported by critical connections
✓ ~~> 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
✓ ~~> 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
✓ ~~> Box
simpler versions of an exercise "stepping stone"
✓ ~~> building blocks
Master01 | September, 2024/2025 | Latest update
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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
✓ ~~> C Curve
the line running downward from the nose, navel, and pubic bone to the heels
✓ ~~> centerline
a symptom or health condition that makes a particular exercise inadvisable
or unsuitable for a student to perform
✓ ~~> 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
✓ ~~> Critical Connections
What are the three critical connections?
✓ ~~> Three anchors, rib to scapula/scapula to rib, heel and buttock
connection
Master01 | September, 2024/2025 | Latest update
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The action of elongating and creating space between the vertebrae
✓ ~~> Decompression
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
✓ ~~> Dividing the Spine Into Thirds
Image of buttons pressing from front to back and back to front through the
body
✓ ~~> Five Buttons
What are the 5 buttons
✓ ~~> 1. Pubic bone 2. Sacral Level 3. Navel 4. Xiphoid Process 5.
Breastbone
The Peak Pilates Principles include what two things?
✓ ~~> Pilates Principles and 5 parts of the mind
The five Pilates Principles
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✓ ~~> Concentration, Centering, Control, Breathing, Precision, Flowing
Movement
The 5 parts of the mind
✓ ~~> Intelligence, Memory, Imagination, Intuition, Will/Desire
The PPC1 Session Format
✓ ~~> a. Mat (15-20 minutes)
b. Reformer (20 minutes)
c. Individual Needs (10 minutes)
d. Endings (5 minutes)
Parts ___ and ___ of the Session Format are interchangeable.
✓ ~~> A, B
This Pilates Principle is useful in rehabbing an injury;
✓ ~~> Precision
Pilates believed in beginning the lesson lying down because?
Master01 | September, 2024/2025 | Latest update
