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1. Breathing
2. Balanced Muscle Development
3. Concentration
NAME THE 9 PILATES 4. Centering
PRINCIPLES 5. Control
6. Precision
7. Rhythm/Flow
8. Relaxation 9. Whole Body Movement

(not sure if this is totally up to date-in the manuals I
could only find the MP categorized into Upper Body
Training, Lower Body Training, Whole Body
Movement, Trunk Integration, Mobility & Restoration)
1. Breathing
2. Core Activation (lower)
NAME THE 10 PILATES 3. Abdominal Strengthening
MOVEMENT PRINCIPLES 4. Neutral Spine/finding optimal starting position
5. Lumbopelvic Stability
6. Scapular Stability & Mobility
7. Strengthening & Mobilizing the Spine
8. Release Work
9. Stretching
10. Correct Alignment

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Placing the springs on the harder
A or pre-loaded position
on the reformer makes the
resistance _____________.

List the color coding of YELLOW (very light), BLUE (light), RED (medium),
the Balanced Body GREEN (heavy)
Reformer springs from
lightest to heaviest.

In the footwork exercises, 90
the footbar should ideally
be adjusted so the client
has a _____ degree angle at
their hips.

Name 3 ways to adjust the 1. lower the footbar
fit of the Reformer for 2. limit carriage return with stopper blocks on the
clients with knee and hip stoppers
injuries that don't tolerate 3. horizontal adjustment
deep flexion?

Name 5 pieces of exercise Reformer, Wunda Chair, Cadillac, Ladder Barrel, Spine
equipment that Joseph Corrector (barrel)
Pilates invented.

Which are contraindicated Hundreds & Short Box Abdominals
for osteoporosis? Swan,
Feet in Straps, Hundreds,
Kneeling Abdominals, Arm
work sitting, Short Box
Abdominals




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Which exercises are Footwork, Feet in straps, Pulling Straps, Standing,
recommended for clients Swan, Arm work facing back
with osteoporosis?
Footwork, Rollbacks, Feet
in Straps, Pulling Straps,
Standing, Short Box Abs,
Swan, Arm Work facing
back

FRONT: center of pubic bone & ASIS (across), (down)
ASIS, center of patella, center of ankle, space b/n 1st
What points must line up
and 2nd toe
for correct leg alignment
when viewed from the
SIDE: high point of Iliac crest, mid point of the lateral
front and from the side?
side of the knee, slightly in front of the lateral
malleolus of the ankle

Genu Valgum-knock knees
Name 3 common leg
Genu Varum-bow legs
misalignments and
Genu Recurvatum-hyperextended knees
describe them.
(extra-supination, pronation, tibial torsion)

List two Reformer (answers vary)
exercises that require example: the Hundred, Short Spine Massage, Short
caution for clients with Box Abdominals, Single leg stretch, Long Box
low back problems. Rocking, etc.

1. Pilates Arc
Name the four kinds of
2. Clara barrel
Step Barrels that Balanced
3. East Coast barrel
Body makes.
4. Contour barrel

To adjust the Ladder Closer to the ladder
Barrel for a shorter client,
move the barrel:
closer to the ladder or
farther away from the
ladder?



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