BALANCED BODY WRITTEN TEST OUT WITH
QUESTIONS AND WELL VERIFIED ANSWERS
;LATEST EXAM!!!!
Create a short mat class using 15 exercises - ANS✔✔---1. Hundred
2. Roll up
3. Single leg circles
4. Rolling like a ball
5. Single leg stretch
6. Double leg stretch
7. Single straight leg stretch
8. Double straight leg stretch
9. Criss cross
10. Saw
11. Swan
12. Single leg kicks
13. Double leg kicks
14. Swimming
15. Side leg lifts
,Listing key areas that an exercise works...options are - ANS✔✔---Abs -
Abdominal exercises (oblique/sagittal)
Lat - Lateral flexion exercises
Rot - Torso rotation
Back - Back extension
Legs - Lower body - hip, leg, and ankle
Arms - Upper body - Shoulder and arm
SS - Scapular stability
PS - Lumbopelvic stability
St - Stretches
Pilates Reformer 1 - ANS✔✔---Written
Name 4 Pilates movement principles and list one reformer exercise you
would use to teach that principle - ANS✔✔---1. Lower core activation -
Kneeling abdominals
2. Lumbopelvic stability - Feet in straps (circles)
3. Shoulder stability/mobility - Long box - overhead press/swan
4. Abdominal strengthening - Hundred
Placing the springs on the A or pre-loaded position on the reformer makes
the resistance - ANS✔✔---Harder
List the color coding of the Balanced Body Reformer Springs from lightest to
heaviest - ANS✔✔---1. Yellow (lightest)
2. Blue
3. Red
4. Green (heaviest)
, In the footwork exercises, the footbar should ideally be adjusted so the
client has a _____________ degree angle at their hips - ANS✔✔---90 degree
Name 3 ways to adjust the fit of the reformer for clients with knee and hip
injuries that don't tolerate deep flexion - ANS✔✔---1. Lower the bar away
from the carriage
2. Limit range of motion of client
3. Move carriage with blocks
Name 5 pieces of equipment that Joesph Pilates invented - ANS✔✔---1.
Reformer
2. Cadallic
3. Wunda chair
4. Barrel
5. Spine Corrector
Circle any reformer exercises that are CONTRAINDICATED for clients with
osteoporosis (reformer) - ANS✔✔---Hundred and Short box abdominals
OK =
Swan
Feet in straps
Kneeling abdominals
Arm work sitting
Circle any reformer exercises that are RECOMMENDED for clients with
osteoporosis - ANS✔✔---Footwork
QUESTIONS AND WELL VERIFIED ANSWERS
;LATEST EXAM!!!!
Create a short mat class using 15 exercises - ANS✔✔---1. Hundred
2. Roll up
3. Single leg circles
4. Rolling like a ball
5. Single leg stretch
6. Double leg stretch
7. Single straight leg stretch
8. Double straight leg stretch
9. Criss cross
10. Saw
11. Swan
12. Single leg kicks
13. Double leg kicks
14. Swimming
15. Side leg lifts
,Listing key areas that an exercise works...options are - ANS✔✔---Abs -
Abdominal exercises (oblique/sagittal)
Lat - Lateral flexion exercises
Rot - Torso rotation
Back - Back extension
Legs - Lower body - hip, leg, and ankle
Arms - Upper body - Shoulder and arm
SS - Scapular stability
PS - Lumbopelvic stability
St - Stretches
Pilates Reformer 1 - ANS✔✔---Written
Name 4 Pilates movement principles and list one reformer exercise you
would use to teach that principle - ANS✔✔---1. Lower core activation -
Kneeling abdominals
2. Lumbopelvic stability - Feet in straps (circles)
3. Shoulder stability/mobility - Long box - overhead press/swan
4. Abdominal strengthening - Hundred
Placing the springs on the A or pre-loaded position on the reformer makes
the resistance - ANS✔✔---Harder
List the color coding of the Balanced Body Reformer Springs from lightest to
heaviest - ANS✔✔---1. Yellow (lightest)
2. Blue
3. Red
4. Green (heaviest)
, In the footwork exercises, the footbar should ideally be adjusted so the
client has a _____________ degree angle at their hips - ANS✔✔---90 degree
Name 3 ways to adjust the fit of the reformer for clients with knee and hip
injuries that don't tolerate deep flexion - ANS✔✔---1. Lower the bar away
from the carriage
2. Limit range of motion of client
3. Move carriage with blocks
Name 5 pieces of equipment that Joesph Pilates invented - ANS✔✔---1.
Reformer
2. Cadallic
3. Wunda chair
4. Barrel
5. Spine Corrector
Circle any reformer exercises that are CONTRAINDICATED for clients with
osteoporosis (reformer) - ANS✔✔---Hundred and Short box abdominals
OK =
Swan
Feet in straps
Kneeling abdominals
Arm work sitting
Circle any reformer exercises that are RECOMMENDED for clients with
osteoporosis - ANS✔✔---Footwork
