Stott Pilates Written Exam with Complete
Questions and Answers
1. When you abduct the arms overhead from the anatomical reference position the
scapula should... - Correct Answer Upwardly rotate
2. What does the term posterior mean - Correct Answer Away from the front of the
body
3. The legs are abducted and laterally rotated for full spinal extension such as swan
dive to - Correct Answer Facilitate hip extension and prevent excessive
extension of the lumbar spine
4. How can you modify if a client cannot support their weight in scapula isolation
standing on the stability chair - Correct Answer Increase the spring tension
5. What does contralateral mean? - Correct Answer opposite side
6. True or false: the hundred requires all the following actions, thoracic flexion, hip
flexion, shoulder extension and forearm supination - Correct Answer FALSE (no
forearm supination)
7. How could you modify the breast stroke prep if the client keeps tilting the pelvis
anteriorly? - Correct Answer Place a pad under their ASIS
8. The scapula has a bony attachment to which part of the body - Correct Answer
Clavicle
9. What is the natural curve of the cervical spine - Correct Answer Anterior convex
curve
10. What muscle actions are involved in back rowing prep #4 - Correct Answer
Concentric and eccentric biceps
11. Name back rowing preps 1-8 - Correct Answer Plow, open elbows, airplane,
Bicep curls, triceps, roll down, roll down with bicep curls, roll down with oblique’s.
12. Which vertebra has the largest body - Correct Answer Lumbar
13. During half roll back the abdominals are working... - Correct Answer Isometric
ally
, 14. How do you describe the leg movement during single leg stretch on the mat -
Correct Answer Reciprocal
15. What is reciprocal movement - Correct Answer Movement of both arms or legs
at the same time but in opposite directions.
16. Which of the following is a part of the axial skeleton: sacrum, ilium, femur, ulna -
Correct Answer Sacrum
17. What happens in the first inhalation in up stretch? - Correct Answer Extension
of the hips articulating through the spine from tail to head
18. What is the starting position for up stretch - Correct Answer Hands on foot bar,
high half toe against the shoulder rest, spine is rounded with weight back over
toes
19. What is the starting position for down stretch? - Correct Answer Hands resting
on foot bar, kneeling, feet against shoulder rests, rounded spine with weight back
over heels
20. Why would you lower the foot bar during back splits - Correct Answer Client has
limited hip extension
21. The ankle joint consists of... - Correct Answer Tibia, fibula, talus
22. In which plane of motion is side splits done - Correct Answer Coronal/frontal
23. Why is it important to engage the transverse abdominals and pelvic floor -
Correct Answer To stabilize the limbo-pelvic region
24. What are the target muscles in side bends on the ladder barrel - Correct Answer
Contralateral eccentric and concentric oblique’s
25. The second cervical vertebra is called what? - Correct Answer Axis
26. True or false: in the ideal posture, the plumb line passes slightly anterior to the
mid line of the knee - Correct Answer True
27. The gear bar determines what? - Correct Answer The initial tension
28. How often must reformer springs be replaced? - Correct Answer Every 24
months
29. Which is not a structure of a vertebra: body, pedicle, tuberosity, lamina - Correct
Answer Tuberosity
Questions and Answers
1. When you abduct the arms overhead from the anatomical reference position the
scapula should... - Correct Answer Upwardly rotate
2. What does the term posterior mean - Correct Answer Away from the front of the
body
3. The legs are abducted and laterally rotated for full spinal extension such as swan
dive to - Correct Answer Facilitate hip extension and prevent excessive
extension of the lumbar spine
4. How can you modify if a client cannot support their weight in scapula isolation
standing on the stability chair - Correct Answer Increase the spring tension
5. What does contralateral mean? - Correct Answer opposite side
6. True or false: the hundred requires all the following actions, thoracic flexion, hip
flexion, shoulder extension and forearm supination - Correct Answer FALSE (no
forearm supination)
7. How could you modify the breast stroke prep if the client keeps tilting the pelvis
anteriorly? - Correct Answer Place a pad under their ASIS
8. The scapula has a bony attachment to which part of the body - Correct Answer
Clavicle
9. What is the natural curve of the cervical spine - Correct Answer Anterior convex
curve
10. What muscle actions are involved in back rowing prep #4 - Correct Answer
Concentric and eccentric biceps
11. Name back rowing preps 1-8 - Correct Answer Plow, open elbows, airplane,
Bicep curls, triceps, roll down, roll down with bicep curls, roll down with oblique’s.
12. Which vertebra has the largest body - Correct Answer Lumbar
13. During half roll back the abdominals are working... - Correct Answer Isometric
ally
, 14. How do you describe the leg movement during single leg stretch on the mat -
Correct Answer Reciprocal
15. What is reciprocal movement - Correct Answer Movement of both arms or legs
at the same time but in opposite directions.
16. Which of the following is a part of the axial skeleton: sacrum, ilium, femur, ulna -
Correct Answer Sacrum
17. What happens in the first inhalation in up stretch? - Correct Answer Extension
of the hips articulating through the spine from tail to head
18. What is the starting position for up stretch - Correct Answer Hands on foot bar,
high half toe against the shoulder rest, spine is rounded with weight back over
toes
19. What is the starting position for down stretch? - Correct Answer Hands resting
on foot bar, kneeling, feet against shoulder rests, rounded spine with weight back
over heels
20. Why would you lower the foot bar during back splits - Correct Answer Client has
limited hip extension
21. The ankle joint consists of... - Correct Answer Tibia, fibula, talus
22. In which plane of motion is side splits done - Correct Answer Coronal/frontal
23. Why is it important to engage the transverse abdominals and pelvic floor -
Correct Answer To stabilize the limbo-pelvic region
24. What are the target muscles in side bends on the ladder barrel - Correct Answer
Contralateral eccentric and concentric oblique’s
25. The second cervical vertebra is called what? - Correct Answer Axis
26. True or false: in the ideal posture, the plumb line passes slightly anterior to the
mid line of the knee - Correct Answer True
27. The gear bar determines what? - Correct Answer The initial tension
28. How often must reformer springs be replaced? - Correct Answer Every 24
months
29. Which is not a structure of a vertebra: body, pedicle, tuberosity, lamina - Correct
Answer Tuberosity
