Pilates Reformer 1 Test Bank QUESTIONS &
ANSWERS | A+ GRADED 100% VERIFIED
• List the 9 Pilates Principles. -✓✓1. Breathing
2. Concentration
3. Control
4. Centering
5. Precision
6. Balanced Muscle Development
7. Rhythm/Flow
8. Whole Body Movement
9. Relaxation
• Name 4 Pilates Movement Principles & list one Reformer exercise you
would use to teach that principle. -✓✓1. Lower core activation -
kneeling abdominals
2. Lumbo pelvic stability - bridging & pelvic lift
3. Breathing - the hundred
4. Stretching - lunges
• Placing the springs on the A or pre-loaded position on the Reformer
makes the resistance? -✓✓Harder
• List the color coding of the Balanced Body Reformer springs from
lightest to heaviest. -✓✓Yellow, Blue, Red, Green
• In the footwork exercises, the footbar should ideally be adjusted so the
client has what degree angle at their hips? -✓✓90
• Name 3 ways to adjust the fit of the Reformer for clients with knee &
hip injuries that don't tolerate deep flexion? -✓✓1. Lower bar
2. Further out (bar)
ANSWERS | A+ GRADED 100% VERIFIED
• List the 9 Pilates Principles. -✓✓1. Breathing
2. Concentration
3. Control
4. Centering
5. Precision
6. Balanced Muscle Development
7. Rhythm/Flow
8. Whole Body Movement
9. Relaxation
• Name 4 Pilates Movement Principles & list one Reformer exercise you
would use to teach that principle. -✓✓1. Lower core activation -
kneeling abdominals
2. Lumbo pelvic stability - bridging & pelvic lift
3. Breathing - the hundred
4. Stretching - lunges
• Placing the springs on the A or pre-loaded position on the Reformer
makes the resistance? -✓✓Harder
• List the color coding of the Balanced Body Reformer springs from
lightest to heaviest. -✓✓Yellow, Blue, Red, Green
• In the footwork exercises, the footbar should ideally be adjusted so the
client has what degree angle at their hips? -✓✓90
• Name 3 ways to adjust the fit of the Reformer for clients with knee &
hip injuries that don't tolerate deep flexion? -✓✓1. Lower bar
2. Further out (bar)
