BASI PILATES ACTUAL 2026 STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Synovial Joint - ✔✔Freely moving joint. Ie: hip, shoulder etc.
✔✔Types of Synovial Joints - ✔✔Gliding
Ball and Socket
Hinge
Pivot
Condyloid
Saddle
✔✔Biceps Brachii - ✔✔Elbow flexion
✔✔Brachialis - ✔✔Elbow flexion
✔✔Triceps Brachii - ✔✔Elbow extension
✔✔Deltoid - ✔✔Shoulder flexion
Shoulder abduction
Shoulder horizontal ab/adduction
✔✔Teres Major - ✔✔Shoulder extension
Shoulder internal rotation
✔✔Pectoralis Major - ✔✔Shoulder flexion
Shoulder extension
Shoulder adduction
✔✔Pectoralis Minor - ✔✔Depress shoulder
✔✔Latissimus Dorsi - ✔✔Shoulder extension
Shoulder adduction
Internal Rotation
✔✔Rotator Cuff Muscles - ✔✔Supraspinatus
Infraspinatus
Teres Minor
Subscapularis
✔✔Rhomboid - ✔✔Scapular adduction
Scapular downward rotation
✔✔Trapezius - ✔✔Scapular adduction
, ✔✔Serratus Anterior - ✔✔Scapular upward rotation
Scapular depression
Scapular abduction (only muscles which does this)
✔✔Quadriceps - ✔✔Knee extension
Hip flexion
✔✔Deep External Rotators of Hip - ✔✔Quadrates Femoris
Piriformus
Obturators
Geemelluss
✔✔Satorius - ✔✔Flexes leg and thigh ABDUCTS thigh, rotates thigh laterally, rotates
leg medially.
✔✔Tensor Fascia Latea - ✔✔Abduction and medial rotation at hip
extension and lateral roation at knee.
✔✔Tibalis Anterior - ✔✔Ankle dorsiflexion
✔✔Tibalis Posterior - ✔✔Stabilizes lower leg, plantar flexion, inversion.
✔✔Peroneals - ✔✔Plantar flexion, eversion.
✔✔Soleus - ✔✔Ankle plantar flexion
✔✔Gastrocnemius - ✔✔Ankle plantar flexion
✔✔Plantaris - ✔✔Plantar flex, knee flexion.
✔✔Rectus Abdominis - ✔✔Trunk flexion.
✔✔External Obliques - ✔✔Trunk flexion, lateral flexion and rotation (to opposite side).
✔✔Internal Obliques - ✔✔Trunk flexion, lateral flexion and rotation (to same side).
✔✔Transverse Abdominus - ✔✔Pulls abdominal wall inward.
✔✔Deep Posterior - ✔✔Spine extension, hyperextension, rotation (opposite side) and
lateral flexion.
✔✔Semi-spinals - ✔✔Spine extension hyperextension, rotation (opposite side), and
lateral flexion.
AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Synovial Joint - ✔✔Freely moving joint. Ie: hip, shoulder etc.
✔✔Types of Synovial Joints - ✔✔Gliding
Ball and Socket
Hinge
Pivot
Condyloid
Saddle
✔✔Biceps Brachii - ✔✔Elbow flexion
✔✔Brachialis - ✔✔Elbow flexion
✔✔Triceps Brachii - ✔✔Elbow extension
✔✔Deltoid - ✔✔Shoulder flexion
Shoulder abduction
Shoulder horizontal ab/adduction
✔✔Teres Major - ✔✔Shoulder extension
Shoulder internal rotation
✔✔Pectoralis Major - ✔✔Shoulder flexion
Shoulder extension
Shoulder adduction
✔✔Pectoralis Minor - ✔✔Depress shoulder
✔✔Latissimus Dorsi - ✔✔Shoulder extension
Shoulder adduction
Internal Rotation
✔✔Rotator Cuff Muscles - ✔✔Supraspinatus
Infraspinatus
Teres Minor
Subscapularis
✔✔Rhomboid - ✔✔Scapular adduction
Scapular downward rotation
✔✔Trapezius - ✔✔Scapular adduction
, ✔✔Serratus Anterior - ✔✔Scapular upward rotation
Scapular depression
Scapular abduction (only muscles which does this)
✔✔Quadriceps - ✔✔Knee extension
Hip flexion
✔✔Deep External Rotators of Hip - ✔✔Quadrates Femoris
Piriformus
Obturators
Geemelluss
✔✔Satorius - ✔✔Flexes leg and thigh ABDUCTS thigh, rotates thigh laterally, rotates
leg medially.
✔✔Tensor Fascia Latea - ✔✔Abduction and medial rotation at hip
extension and lateral roation at knee.
✔✔Tibalis Anterior - ✔✔Ankle dorsiflexion
✔✔Tibalis Posterior - ✔✔Stabilizes lower leg, plantar flexion, inversion.
✔✔Peroneals - ✔✔Plantar flexion, eversion.
✔✔Soleus - ✔✔Ankle plantar flexion
✔✔Gastrocnemius - ✔✔Ankle plantar flexion
✔✔Plantaris - ✔✔Plantar flex, knee flexion.
✔✔Rectus Abdominis - ✔✔Trunk flexion.
✔✔External Obliques - ✔✔Trunk flexion, lateral flexion and rotation (to opposite side).
✔✔Internal Obliques - ✔✔Trunk flexion, lateral flexion and rotation (to same side).
✔✔Transverse Abdominus - ✔✔Pulls abdominal wall inward.
✔✔Deep Posterior - ✔✔Spine extension, hyperextension, rotation (opposite side) and
lateral flexion.
✔✔Semi-spinals - ✔✔Spine extension hyperextension, rotation (opposite side), and
lateral flexion.
