Club Pilates Final Written Exam Questions & Answers
(Latest 2024-2025)
1. Always suggest that clients use a thin mat or towel for their Pilates Mat classes. It
doesn't have to be a thick Mat, it should just cover the area under your client's
body.
True / False: False
2. What is the best way to warm up a class of elderly persons?
Ground based pelvic rocks followed by single leg stretch keeping the head down
Standing balance and jumping challenge
Pilates push up: Ground based pelvic rocks followed by single leg stretch keeping the
head down
3. What exercises should your client master before trying the Boomerang? Roll
over and Teaser
Corkscrew and Leg Circles
Roll Over and Side Leg Series
Rolling Like A Ball and Saw: Roll over and Teaser
4. Choose/Match the best exercise for each client type:: Swimming Hunched
Shoulders (Over-Kyphotic)
Pelvic Rocks or Tilts
Post-natal (Cleared for light workouts)
Single Leg Circle
Hip Replacement, cleared for light ROM
,Corkscrew
Young athlete who does Yoga
5. After warming up my small group mat class, I plan on having them do
________________________ to get the back of their body warm and then
_________________________ to get the front of their body warm.
Knee Circles and Seal
Corkscrew and Side Kneeling Series
Bridge variations and Hundreds
Saw and Boomerang: Bridge variations and Hundreds
6. Having both legs in table top is considered a closed kinetic chain and this is good
for clients with low back issues.
True / False: False
7. You are evaluating a client for the first time and find they have a major anterior
tilt in their pelvis and no injuries in the past. They have been cleared to start a
fitness routine after having not worked out in the past 4 years. What moves
would you teach them in their first work out?
Swimming, Double Leg Kick, Crab
Bridge, Roll Up, Quadruped
Hundred, Swan Dive, Teaser
Crab, Corkscrew, Back bends: Bridge, Roll Up, Quadruped
8. During the chest lift, the client should maintain their neutral pelvis.
True / False: True
9. During Teaser, how does bending the knees into the chest change the exercise?
, Bending the knees into the chest changes the intention of the exercise. Your client
might not be ready for Teaser. Once they master the various Teaser Prep exercises
for the fundamentals of the exercise, you can progress them to the full Teaser
exercise.
It does not, it is part of the movement
It takes the low back out of the equation and should be done during a clients entire
Pilates practice.
None of the above.: Bending the knees into the chest changes the intention of the
exercise. Your client might not be ready for Teaser. Once they master the various Teaser
Prep exercises for the fundamentals of the exercise, you can progress them to the full
Teaser exercise.
10. In what plane of motion is the Hundred?
Sagittal
Lateral
Transverse
Frontal: Sagittal
11. Which method of journaling do we suggest using through the course?
Pilates Metrics
Rapid Fire Journaling
Post-it notes
Talk to text note taking: Rapid Fire Journaling
12. What is the best order of movement to start with if your client had an old
injury, works all the time, and is "just getting back to moving?"
(Latest 2024-2025)
1. Always suggest that clients use a thin mat or towel for their Pilates Mat classes. It
doesn't have to be a thick Mat, it should just cover the area under your client's
body.
True / False: False
2. What is the best way to warm up a class of elderly persons?
Ground based pelvic rocks followed by single leg stretch keeping the head down
Standing balance and jumping challenge
Pilates push up: Ground based pelvic rocks followed by single leg stretch keeping the
head down
3. What exercises should your client master before trying the Boomerang? Roll
over and Teaser
Corkscrew and Leg Circles
Roll Over and Side Leg Series
Rolling Like A Ball and Saw: Roll over and Teaser
4. Choose/Match the best exercise for each client type:: Swimming Hunched
Shoulders (Over-Kyphotic)
Pelvic Rocks or Tilts
Post-natal (Cleared for light workouts)
Single Leg Circle
Hip Replacement, cleared for light ROM
,Corkscrew
Young athlete who does Yoga
5. After warming up my small group mat class, I plan on having them do
________________________ to get the back of their body warm and then
_________________________ to get the front of their body warm.
Knee Circles and Seal
Corkscrew and Side Kneeling Series
Bridge variations and Hundreds
Saw and Boomerang: Bridge variations and Hundreds
6. Having both legs in table top is considered a closed kinetic chain and this is good
for clients with low back issues.
True / False: False
7. You are evaluating a client for the first time and find they have a major anterior
tilt in their pelvis and no injuries in the past. They have been cleared to start a
fitness routine after having not worked out in the past 4 years. What moves
would you teach them in their first work out?
Swimming, Double Leg Kick, Crab
Bridge, Roll Up, Quadruped
Hundred, Swan Dive, Teaser
Crab, Corkscrew, Back bends: Bridge, Roll Up, Quadruped
8. During the chest lift, the client should maintain their neutral pelvis.
True / False: True
9. During Teaser, how does bending the knees into the chest change the exercise?
, Bending the knees into the chest changes the intention of the exercise. Your client
might not be ready for Teaser. Once they master the various Teaser Prep exercises
for the fundamentals of the exercise, you can progress them to the full Teaser
exercise.
It does not, it is part of the movement
It takes the low back out of the equation and should be done during a clients entire
Pilates practice.
None of the above.: Bending the knees into the chest changes the intention of the
exercise. Your client might not be ready for Teaser. Once they master the various Teaser
Prep exercises for the fundamentals of the exercise, you can progress them to the full
Teaser exercise.
10. In what plane of motion is the Hundred?
Sagittal
Lateral
Transverse
Frontal: Sagittal
11. Which method of journaling do we suggest using through the course?
Pilates Metrics
Rapid Fire Journaling
Post-it notes
Talk to text note taking: Rapid Fire Journaling
12. What is the best order of movement to start with if your client had an old
injury, works all the time, and is "just getting back to moving?"
