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Pilates Mat 1 - Answer✅✅Written
List the 9 Pilates Principles - Answer✅✅1. Breathing
2. Concentration
3. Control
4. Centering
5. Precision
6. Balanced Muscle Development
7. Rhythm/Flow
8. Whole Body Movement
9. Relaxation
Name 5 Pilates Movement Principles - Answer✅✅1. Lower core activation
2. Neutral spine
3. Abdominal strengthening
4. Shoulder stability/mobility
5. Alignment
Name the 4 muscles of the core/inner unit - Answer✅✅1. Transverse Abdominus
2. Pelvic floor
,3. Multifidi
4. Diaphragm
What country was Joseph Pilates born in? - Answer✅✅Germany around 1883
In what year did Joesph Pilates move to the US? - Answer✅✅1926
What American city did Joesph Pilates live and teach in? - Answer✅✅New York City
Circle exercises that are contraindicated for clients with osteoporosis -
Answer✅✅100
Rolling like a ball
Double straight leg stretch
OK =
-Swan
-Side leg series
-Side leg kicks
Name 3 mat exercises that are safe throughout pregnancy - Answer✅✅1. Side leg
series
2. Cat/cow
3. Pregnant cat
What bony landmarks define a neutral pelvis - Answer✅✅Anterior Superior Iliac
Spine (ASIS)
Pubic Symphysis
List two ways to modify spine stretch for clients with tight hamstrings -
Answer✅✅1. Bend knees slightly
2. Sit on a mat, towel, block
Name four mat exercises that require caution for clients with low back problems -
Answer✅✅1. Rolling like a ball
2. Roll up
3. Neck pull
4. Criss cross
Create a short mat class using 15 exercises - Answer✅✅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 - Answer✅✅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 - Answer✅✅Written
Name 4 Pilates movement principles and list one reformer exercise you would use
to teach that principle - Answer✅✅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 - Answer✅✅Harder
List the color coding of the Balanced Body Reformer Springs from lightest to
heaviest - Answer✅✅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 - Answer✅✅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 - Answer✅✅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 - Answer✅✅1. Reformer
2. Cadallic
3. Wunda chair