PILATES MAT EXAM QUESTIONS & UPDATED
ANSWERS PASSED 100% ACCURATE
1. Pilates Principles Concentration
Control
Centering
Precision
Flowing Movement
Breathing
2. Contemporar Alignment
y Additional Commitment
Principles
3. Pelvic Complex The bony structures of the pelvis plus all the muscles that act upon or attect
it. These include:
Abs
Adductors (inside legs)
Hip flexors
Hamstrings
Back
Extension
Ideal pelvic alignment allows the muscles of the Pelvic Complex to
work with balance and eflciency. Altering the pelvic alignment will attect
this balance and therefore attect the entire body. Muscle imbalances or
faulty movement patterns of the pelvic complex can cause misalignment,
which will inevitably attect the movement patterns of the whole body
and possibly cause pain and injury.
4. Ped-a-pul (1) Double Arm Presses: 1. Flexion/Extension & Adduction/Abduction
Arm
(2) Circles
Sequence
(3) Shrugs and Triceps
(4) Wax on wax ott
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,PILATES MAT EXAM QUESTIONS & UPDATED
ANSWERS PASSED 100% ACCURATE
5. Exercises for Scoli Strengthen core muscles - eg chest lift, hula, hundred.
6. 2BC Exercises Pelvic Curl
Chest Lift
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, PILATES MAT EXAM QUESTIONS & UPDATED
ANSWERS PASSED 100% ACCURATE
SLL
Hula
Roll
Up
Spine
Stretch
Roll Back
Saw
Cat Stretch
Roll Down
Side Reach
Roll Overs
Cobra
Standing Arm Series: Double Arms
Standing Glute Series: Bent Leg Lift &
Rotate Ped-a-pul: Squats/Plies
Ball: Squats
Ball: Pelvic
Press
Ball: Wall Squats
7. The Start Position Supine with arms pressed to floor overhead, legs in table top.
for 100s
8. Abduction/ Movement away from and toward the body.
ad- duction
9. Side Lying
1 BC
Leg Circles
Progressive
L&E
Side lying with underneath arm extended under head and legs slightly
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ANSWERS PASSED 100% ACCURATE
1. Pilates Principles Concentration
Control
Centering
Precision
Flowing Movement
Breathing
2. Contemporar Alignment
y Additional Commitment
Principles
3. Pelvic Complex The bony structures of the pelvis plus all the muscles that act upon or attect
it. These include:
Abs
Adductors (inside legs)
Hip flexors
Hamstrings
Back
Extension
Ideal pelvic alignment allows the muscles of the Pelvic Complex to
work with balance and eflciency. Altering the pelvic alignment will attect
this balance and therefore attect the entire body. Muscle imbalances or
faulty movement patterns of the pelvic complex can cause misalignment,
which will inevitably attect the movement patterns of the whole body
and possibly cause pain and injury.
4. Ped-a-pul (1) Double Arm Presses: 1. Flexion/Extension & Adduction/Abduction
Arm
(2) Circles
Sequence
(3) Shrugs and Triceps
(4) Wax on wax ott
1/
18
,PILATES MAT EXAM QUESTIONS & UPDATED
ANSWERS PASSED 100% ACCURATE
5. Exercises for Scoli Strengthen core muscles - eg chest lift, hula, hundred.
6. 2BC Exercises Pelvic Curl
Chest Lift
2/
18
, PILATES MAT EXAM QUESTIONS & UPDATED
ANSWERS PASSED 100% ACCURATE
SLL
Hula
Roll
Up
Spine
Stretch
Roll Back
Saw
Cat Stretch
Roll Down
Side Reach
Roll Overs
Cobra
Standing Arm Series: Double Arms
Standing Glute Series: Bent Leg Lift &
Rotate Ped-a-pul: Squats/Plies
Ball: Squats
Ball: Pelvic
Press
Ball: Wall Squats
7. The Start Position Supine with arms pressed to floor overhead, legs in table top.
for 100s
8. Abduction/ Movement away from and toward the body.
ad- duction
9. Side Lying
1 BC
Leg Circles
Progressive
L&E
Side lying with underneath arm extended under head and legs slightly
3/
18
