REFORMER INSTRUCTOR TEST OUT -
BALANCED BODY EXAM 2025
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Breathing
Concentration
Control
Centering
Precision
Balanced Muscle Development
Rhythm/Flow
Whole Body Movement
Relaxation - ANS 9 Pilates Principles
Lumbopelvic Stability - Footwork
Abdominal Strengthening - Hundred
Scapular Stability - Kneeling abdominals, facing back
Stretching - Mermaid - ANS Name 4 Pilates Movement Principles & list one Reformer
exercise you would use to teach that principle
90 - ANS In the footwork exercises, the football should ideally be set to _______ degree
angle at their hips.
Lower the football to lowest setting
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, Horizontal adjustment of the carriage
Use stop blocks if Revo not present - ANS Name 3 ways to adjust the fit of the Reformer for
clients with knee & hip injuries that don't tolerate deep flexion at the hips.
Hip: ASIS
Knee: Center of patella
Ankle: Center of ankle joint - ANS What points must line up for correct leg alignment when
view from the front of the body?
Hip: Greater Trochanter
Knee: Mid-lateral point of knee
Ankle: Just anterior to the lateral ankle bone - ANS What points must line up for correct leg
alignment when viewed from the side?
Top of earlobe
Top of shoulder
Center of ribcage
Greater trochanter (High point of iliac crest)
Mid point of lateral side of knee
Slightly in front of the lateral malleolus - ANS When observing a person's posture from the
side, what 6 points line up if the client is in perfect alignment?
Romana
Eve Gentry
Ron Fletcher
Carola Trier
Kathy Grant
Mary Bowen
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BALANCED BODY EXAM 2025
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Breathing
Concentration
Control
Centering
Precision
Balanced Muscle Development
Rhythm/Flow
Whole Body Movement
Relaxation - ANS 9 Pilates Principles
Lumbopelvic Stability - Footwork
Abdominal Strengthening - Hundred
Scapular Stability - Kneeling abdominals, facing back
Stretching - Mermaid - ANS Name 4 Pilates Movement Principles & list one Reformer
exercise you would use to teach that principle
90 - ANS In the footwork exercises, the football should ideally be set to _______ degree
angle at their hips.
Lower the football to lowest setting
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, Horizontal adjustment of the carriage
Use stop blocks if Revo not present - ANS Name 3 ways to adjust the fit of the Reformer for
clients with knee & hip injuries that don't tolerate deep flexion at the hips.
Hip: ASIS
Knee: Center of patella
Ankle: Center of ankle joint - ANS What points must line up for correct leg alignment when
view from the front of the body?
Hip: Greater Trochanter
Knee: Mid-lateral point of knee
Ankle: Just anterior to the lateral ankle bone - ANS What points must line up for correct leg
alignment when viewed from the side?
Top of earlobe
Top of shoulder
Center of ribcage
Greater trochanter (High point of iliac crest)
Mid point of lateral side of knee
Slightly in front of the lateral malleolus - ANS When observing a person's posture from the
side, what 6 points line up if the client is in perfect alignment?
Romana
Eve Gentry
Ron Fletcher
Carola Trier
Kathy Grant
Mary Bowen
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