Peak Pilates Study Guide Level 1 2024/2025 Exam
WITH ALL QUESTION AND ANSWERS VAFIED AND
CONFIRMED ACCURATE
1. A concept that describes how each exercise is stabilized by the powerhouse
and supported by critical connections
Answer: anchoring
2. stacking one vertebrae at a time, lifting bone by bone, or rolling down and
releasing the vertebrae onto the mat one vertebrae at a time:
Answer Articulate/Segment
3. Rectangle formed by 2 imaginary lines running from shoulder to shoulder
and from hip to hip and completed by 2 lines running from shoulder to hip:
Answer Box
4. simpler versions of an exercise "stepping stone":
Answer building blocks
,5. shape the spine and body assume during many Pilates exercises. Created by
deep pull of the transverse abdominus wrapping around the spine and opening
the spinal column in flexion:
Answer C Curve
6. the line running downward from the nose, navel, and pubic bone to the
heels:
Answer centerline
7. a symptom or health condition that makes a particular exercise inadvisable
or unsuitable for a student to perform:
Answer contraindications
8. connections that deepen the work in the powerhouse and improve execution.
1. Three Anchors 2. Rib to scapula/scapula to rib 3. heel and buttock connec-
tion:
Answer Critical Connections
9. What are the three critical connections?: Three anchors, rib to scapula/scapula to rib, heel and
buttock connection
10. The action of elongating and creating space between the vertebrae: Decompres-
sion
11. A way to approach and cue rolling the spine segments: tailbone to top of
pelvis, top of pelvis to base of sternum, bottom of ribs, and bottom of ribs to
,skull:
Answer Dividing the Spine Into Thirds
12. Image of buttons pressing from front to back and back to front through the
body:
Answer Five Buttons
13. What are the 5 buttons:
Answer
1. Pubic bone
2. Sacral Level
3. Navel
4. Xiphoid Process
5. Breastbone
14. The Peak Pilates Principles include what two things?
Answer: Pilates Principles and 5 parts of the mind
15. The five Pilates Principles
Answer: Concentration, Centering, Control, Breathing, Precision, Flowing Movement
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16. The 5 parts of the mind: Intelligence, Memory, Imagination, Intuition, Will/Desire
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b. Reformer (20 minutes) g g
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d. Endings (5 minutes) g g
18. Parts g and g of the Session Format are interchangeable.: A, B
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19. This Pilates Principle is useful in rehabbing an injury;: Precision
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20. Pilates believed in beginning the lesson lying down because?: gravityassistsinthe elong
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21. A Pilates Session ends in what position?: standing/vertical to gravity
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22. Focus on thoroughly teaching the g g g g g exercises before moving a stu-
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23. List 4 indicators of progressing a student too quickly:: LossofConcentration,lossof coordi
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nation, poor technique, pain following the session
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24. PPC1 Teaching Methodology: 1.SetUp
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2. Execution
3. Flow
WITH ALL QUESTION AND ANSWERS VAFIED AND
CONFIRMED ACCURATE
1. A concept that describes how each exercise is stabilized by the powerhouse
and supported by critical connections
Answer: anchoring
2. stacking one vertebrae at a time, lifting bone by bone, or rolling down and
releasing the vertebrae onto the mat one vertebrae at a time:
Answer Articulate/Segment
3. Rectangle formed by 2 imaginary lines running from shoulder to shoulder
and from hip to hip and completed by 2 lines running from shoulder to hip:
Answer Box
4. simpler versions of an exercise "stepping stone":
Answer building blocks
,5. shape the spine and body assume during many Pilates exercises. Created by
deep pull of the transverse abdominus wrapping around the spine and opening
the spinal column in flexion:
Answer C Curve
6. the line running downward from the nose, navel, and pubic bone to the
heels:
Answer centerline
7. a symptom or health condition that makes a particular exercise inadvisable
or unsuitable for a student to perform:
Answer contraindications
8. connections that deepen the work in the powerhouse and improve execution.
1. Three Anchors 2. Rib to scapula/scapula to rib 3. heel and buttock connec-
tion:
Answer Critical Connections
9. What are the three critical connections?: Three anchors, rib to scapula/scapula to rib, heel and
buttock connection
10. The action of elongating and creating space between the vertebrae: Decompres-
sion
11. A way to approach and cue rolling the spine segments: tailbone to top of
pelvis, top of pelvis to base of sternum, bottom of ribs, and bottom of ribs to
,skull:
Answer Dividing the Spine Into Thirds
12. Image of buttons pressing from front to back and back to front through the
body:
Answer Five Buttons
13. What are the 5 buttons:
Answer
1. Pubic bone
2. Sacral Level
3. Navel
4. Xiphoid Process
5. Breastbone
14. The Peak Pilates Principles include what two things?
Answer: Pilates Principles and 5 parts of the mind
15. The five Pilates Principles
Answer: Concentration, Centering, Control, Breathing, Precision, Flowing Movement
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16. The 5 parts of the mind: Intelligence, Memory, Imagination, Intuition, Will/Desire
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, 17. The PPC1 Session Format: a.Mat(15-20minutes)
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b. Reformer (20 minutes) g g
c. Individual Needs (10 minutes) g g g
d. Endings (5 minutes) g g
18. Parts g and g of the Session Format are interchangeable.: A, B
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19. This Pilates Principle is useful in rehabbing an injury;: Precision
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20. Pilates believed in beginning the lesson lying down because?: gravityassistsinthe elong
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ation and spinal placement
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21. A Pilates Session ends in what position?: standing/vertical to gravity
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22. Focus on thoroughly teaching the g g g g g exercises before moving a stu-
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gdent on to more advanced exercises.: basic
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23. List 4 indicators of progressing a student too quickly:: LossofConcentration,lossof coordi
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nation, poor technique, pain following the session
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24. PPC1 Teaching Methodology: 1.SetUp
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2. Execution
3. Flow
