REFORMER PILATES REVIEW TIPS QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔In what plane of motion is the hundred? - ✔✔Sagittal
✔✔Which method of journaling do we suggest using the course? - ✔✔Rapid fire
journaling
✔✔True or false: Pilates metrics has all of the entire exercise library uploaded in it so
that I can utilize it for helping me do my practice teaching hours, observation hours,
assistant teaching and self practice - ✔✔True
✔✔What is the best order of movement to start with if you your client had an old injury,
works all the time and is "just getting back to moving?" - ✔✔Roll down, footwork, bridge
variation, hands in straps/supine abs variation
✔✔What is the best choice for initial evaluation of ROM for the ankles? - ✔✔Heels
lower and lift
✔✔What is the best cue to give a client that has valves knees when putting them into
footwork? - ✔✔Magic circle being held at the outside of the upper knee area
✔✔Footwork on the reformer is most closely related to which real-life activity? -
✔✔Sitting down and standing up
✔✔True or false: Footwork on the jump board and the foot bar are exactly the same -
✔✔False
✔✔True or false: Clients who can do footwork on the reformer are ready for jumping on
the jump board - ✔✔False
, ✔✔When is a client ready to jump? - ✔✔When they have a stable pelvis and they are
able to maintain a basic level of proprioceptive awareness
✔✔How is footwork on the jump board different than footwork on the reformer? -
✔✔The "ground" is flat compared to round which elicits a reaction closer to real life than
the foot bar on the reformer
✔✔Which client has the most level appropriate below to START class? - ✔✔Advanced
✔✔What are the elements of a good flow with regards to teaching your Pilates class? -
✔✔Progressions, transitions, creative sequencing
✔✔What is the best example of a "Transition DO?" - ✔✔Instructor changes the springs
while the clients do a different move to distract them
✔✔What are the 4 main muscles are emphasized during footwork on the reformer? -
✔✔Transverse abdominis, contralateral obliques, flutes, hamstrings
✔✔True or false: Bridge variations on the reformer strengthen the back muscles and
posterior chain overall - ✔✔True
✔✔True or false: after finding out that a client has a healthy back, you should always
start their spinal flexion in a hinge NOT articulation - ✔✔False
✔✔Pick the correct group of contraindications for bridging exercises - ✔✔Pregnancy,
hip replacements, slipped disc, osteoporosis
✔✔True or false: single leg bridge variations are a good introduction to lateral strength
and flexion for the spine - ✔✔True
✔✔what is the most advanced variation of bridge work and why? - ✔✔Semi circle, it
incorporates multiple variations of spinal articulations and clients must have impeccable
proprioceptive awareness to be successful
✔✔For "supine arms in straps" variations, the proper client progression would be in the
what order? - ✔✔Maintain head down and legs in table top then progress to head up
during lower and down during lift followed by head up the entire time and legs in
extension
✔✔What are the major muscles emphasized in supine arms in straps series? -
✔✔Transverse abdominis for stabilization, hip flexors to hold legs in place and
latissimus Doris
AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔In what plane of motion is the hundred? - ✔✔Sagittal
✔✔Which method of journaling do we suggest using the course? - ✔✔Rapid fire
journaling
✔✔True or false: Pilates metrics has all of the entire exercise library uploaded in it so
that I can utilize it for helping me do my practice teaching hours, observation hours,
assistant teaching and self practice - ✔✔True
✔✔What is the best order of movement to start with if you your client had an old injury,
works all the time and is "just getting back to moving?" - ✔✔Roll down, footwork, bridge
variation, hands in straps/supine abs variation
✔✔What is the best choice for initial evaluation of ROM for the ankles? - ✔✔Heels
lower and lift
✔✔What is the best cue to give a client that has valves knees when putting them into
footwork? - ✔✔Magic circle being held at the outside of the upper knee area
✔✔Footwork on the reformer is most closely related to which real-life activity? -
✔✔Sitting down and standing up
✔✔True or false: Footwork on the jump board and the foot bar are exactly the same -
✔✔False
✔✔True or false: Clients who can do footwork on the reformer are ready for jumping on
the jump board - ✔✔False
, ✔✔When is a client ready to jump? - ✔✔When they have a stable pelvis and they are
able to maintain a basic level of proprioceptive awareness
✔✔How is footwork on the jump board different than footwork on the reformer? -
✔✔The "ground" is flat compared to round which elicits a reaction closer to real life than
the foot bar on the reformer
✔✔Which client has the most level appropriate below to START class? - ✔✔Advanced
✔✔What are the elements of a good flow with regards to teaching your Pilates class? -
✔✔Progressions, transitions, creative sequencing
✔✔What is the best example of a "Transition DO?" - ✔✔Instructor changes the springs
while the clients do a different move to distract them
✔✔What are the 4 main muscles are emphasized during footwork on the reformer? -
✔✔Transverse abdominis, contralateral obliques, flutes, hamstrings
✔✔True or false: Bridge variations on the reformer strengthen the back muscles and
posterior chain overall - ✔✔True
✔✔True or false: after finding out that a client has a healthy back, you should always
start their spinal flexion in a hinge NOT articulation - ✔✔False
✔✔Pick the correct group of contraindications for bridging exercises - ✔✔Pregnancy,
hip replacements, slipped disc, osteoporosis
✔✔True or false: single leg bridge variations are a good introduction to lateral strength
and flexion for the spine - ✔✔True
✔✔what is the most advanced variation of bridge work and why? - ✔✔Semi circle, it
incorporates multiple variations of spinal articulations and clients must have impeccable
proprioceptive awareness to be successful
✔✔For "supine arms in straps" variations, the proper client progression would be in the
what order? - ✔✔Maintain head down and legs in table top then progress to head up
during lower and down during lift followed by head up the entire time and legs in
extension
✔✔What are the major muscles emphasized in supine arms in straps series? -
✔✔Transverse abdominis for stabilization, hip flexors to hold legs in place and
latissimus Doris
