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Basi Pilates Mat Course Exam Questions
And Answers |Latest 2025 | Guaranteed Pass
Ten principles - Answer✔Awareness, Balance, Control, Efficiency, Precision, Breath,
Concentration, Center, Flow, Harmony
Benefits of working in neutral position - Answer✔Encourages balanced muscular development
of pelvic complex, and correct muscle recruitment.
Using neutral spine position teaches efficient posture and lateral alignment.
Neutral Pelvis - Answer✔The position of the pelvis when the anterior superior iliac spine (ASIS)
on each side of the pelvis and pubic symphysis (PS), are in the same horizontal plane (coronal
plane when erect) and the two ASIS are in the same transverse plane.
Finding Neutral Pelvis - Answer✔When lying supine, the triangle formed by ASIS and PS
landmarks should be in same horizontal plane.
Posterior Pelvic Tilt - Answer✔If PS is higher than ASIS (tuck)
Anterior Tilt - Answer✔If ASIS is higher than PS (arch)
Muscle Groups that act on Pelvic complex - Answer✔Spinal Flexors, Pelvic Floor, Spinal
extensors, Spinal lateral flexors and rotators, Hip Flexors, Hip Extensors, Hip Adductors, Hip
Abductors, Hip external rotators, Hip internal rotators
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Benefits of Breathing - Answer✔Oxygenate blood and nourish body on cellular level
Improve circulation
Calm body and mind
Encourage concentration
Recruit appropriate muscles for the movements
Provide rhythm for movements
Breath Cycle - Answer✔Process of Inhalation and Exhalation
Inhalation - Answer✔Contraction of the diaphragm to enlarge chest cavity and draw air INTO
the lungs
Exhalation - Answer✔Relaxation of the diaphragm which causes decrease in volume of chest
cavity and increase of pressure inside the lungs. To equalize pressure to outside, air is forced
out of the lungs
Pilates Breathing - Answer✔Lateral breathing or intercostal breathing
Muscle Focus - Answer✔The muscle or group of muscles that is the primary focus of the
exercise.
Objectives - Answer✔Describes action of muscle
Cues - Answer✔Actual execution of exercise (precision)
Stabilizers - Answer✔Stabilize the movement
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Movers - Answer✔Muscles that produce the movement
Synergists - Answer✔Members of a group of muscles working together to produce a movement
Initiators - Answer✔A link between stabilizers and movers when transitioning from stable,
static state to mobile state
When and where was Joseph Pilates Born - Answer✔Germany 1880
When was first Pilates studio opened and where - Answer✔1926, New York
General protocols of safety - Answer✔Warm up
Prepare body
Monitor heart rate and body temperature
Cool Down
Fundamental Level Exercises Module 1 - Answer✔Pelvic Curl
Spine Twist Supine
Chest Lift
Chest Lift with Rotation
Single leg lifts / Leg changes
Hundred Prep
Roll up
Leg Circles
Rolling like a ball
Spine stretch
Side lifts
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Basi Pilates Mat Course Exam Questions
And Answers |Latest 2025 | Guaranteed Pass
Ten principles - Answer✔Awareness, Balance, Control, Efficiency, Precision, Breath,
Concentration, Center, Flow, Harmony
Benefits of working in neutral position - Answer✔Encourages balanced muscular development
of pelvic complex, and correct muscle recruitment.
Using neutral spine position teaches efficient posture and lateral alignment.
Neutral Pelvis - Answer✔The position of the pelvis when the anterior superior iliac spine (ASIS)
on each side of the pelvis and pubic symphysis (PS), are in the same horizontal plane (coronal
plane when erect) and the two ASIS are in the same transverse plane.
Finding Neutral Pelvis - Answer✔When lying supine, the triangle formed by ASIS and PS
landmarks should be in same horizontal plane.
Posterior Pelvic Tilt - Answer✔If PS is higher than ASIS (tuck)
Anterior Tilt - Answer✔If ASIS is higher than PS (arch)
Muscle Groups that act on Pelvic complex - Answer✔Spinal Flexors, Pelvic Floor, Spinal
extensors, Spinal lateral flexors and rotators, Hip Flexors, Hip Extensors, Hip Adductors, Hip
Abductors, Hip external rotators, Hip internal rotators
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Benefits of Breathing - Answer✔Oxygenate blood and nourish body on cellular level
Improve circulation
Calm body and mind
Encourage concentration
Recruit appropriate muscles for the movements
Provide rhythm for movements
Breath Cycle - Answer✔Process of Inhalation and Exhalation
Inhalation - Answer✔Contraction of the diaphragm to enlarge chest cavity and draw air INTO
the lungs
Exhalation - Answer✔Relaxation of the diaphragm which causes decrease in volume of chest
cavity and increase of pressure inside the lungs. To equalize pressure to outside, air is forced
out of the lungs
Pilates Breathing - Answer✔Lateral breathing or intercostal breathing
Muscle Focus - Answer✔The muscle or group of muscles that is the primary focus of the
exercise.
Objectives - Answer✔Describes action of muscle
Cues - Answer✔Actual execution of exercise (precision)
Stabilizers - Answer✔Stabilize the movement
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Movers - Answer✔Muscles that produce the movement
Synergists - Answer✔Members of a group of muscles working together to produce a movement
Initiators - Answer✔A link between stabilizers and movers when transitioning from stable,
static state to mobile state
When and where was Joseph Pilates Born - Answer✔Germany 1880
When was first Pilates studio opened and where - Answer✔1926, New York
General protocols of safety - Answer✔Warm up
Prepare body
Monitor heart rate and body temperature
Cool Down
Fundamental Level Exercises Module 1 - Answer✔Pelvic Curl
Spine Twist Supine
Chest Lift
Chest Lift with Rotation
Single leg lifts / Leg changes
Hundred Prep
Roll up
Leg Circles
Rolling like a ball
Spine stretch
Side lifts
3
