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Peak Pilates Study Guide Level 1 Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions A concept that describes how each exercise is stabilized by the powerhouse and supported by critical connections - Answer-anchoring stacking one vertebrae at a time, lifting bone by bone, or rolling down and releasing the...

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Peak Pilates Study Guide Level 1 Exam
Study Guide with Complete Solutions

A concept that describes how each exercise is stabilized by the powerhouse and supported by critical

connections - Answer✔✔-anchoring


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


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


simpler versions of an exercise "stepping stone" - Answer✔✔-building blocks


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


the line running downward from the nose, navel, and pubic bone to the heels - Answer✔✔-centerline


a symptom or health condition that makes a particular exercise inadvisable or unsuitable for a student to

perform - Answer✔✔-contraindications


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 connection - Answer✔✔-Critical Connections


What are the three critical connections? - Answer✔✔-Three anchors, rib to scapula/scapula to rib, heel

and buttock connection

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The action of elongating and creating space between the vertebrae - Answer✔✔-Decompression


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


Image of buttons pressing from front to back and back to front through the body - Answer✔✔-Five

Buttons


What are the 5 buttons - Answer✔✔-1. Pubic bone 2. Sacral Level 3. Navel 4. Xiphoid Process 5.

Breastbone


The Peak Pilates Principles include what two things? - Answer✔✔-Pilates Principles and 5 parts of the

mind


The five Pilates Principles - Answer✔✔-Concentration, Centering, Control, Breathing, Precision, Flowing

Movement


The 5 parts of the mind - Answer✔✔-Intelligence, Memory, Imagination, Intuition, Will/Desire


The PPC1 Session Format - Answer✔✔-a. Mat (15-20 minutes)


b. Reformer (20 minutes)


c. Individual Needs (10 minutes)


d. Endings (5 minutes)


Parts ___ and ___ of the Session Format are interchangeable. - Answer✔✔-A, B


This Pilates Principle is useful in rehabbing an injury; - Answer✔✔-Precision




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Pilates believed in beginning the lesson lying down because? - Answer✔✔-gravity assists in the

elongation and spinal placement


A Pilates Session ends in what position? - Answer✔✔-standing/vertical to gravity


Focus on thoroughly teaching the _________ exercises before moving a student on to more advanced

exercises. - Answer✔✔-basic


List 4 indicators of progressing a student too quickly: - Answer✔✔-Loss of Concentration, loss of

coordination, poor technique, pain following the session


PPC1 Teaching Methodology - Answer✔✔-1. Set Up


2. Execution


3. Flow


4. Cueing


5. Rhythm


6. Voice


7. Breath Dynamics


Presentation Skills - Answer✔✔-1. Safety


2. Exercises Delivery


3. Teacher's Posture


4. Touch Techniques



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5. Professionalism


6. Teacher Mindfulness


Guidelines for Progression - Answer✔✔-1. Adhere to session format


2. Introduce no more that one variation or apparatus


3. teach to the student's ideal


4. Build strength and stamina through steps


5. Teach transitions as part of exercise


6. Challenge the ideal with props, variations, rhythms, flow, and breath- not with more reps


When extending the spine:


a. Always hold the breath


b. First stabilize the lumbo pelvic girdle


c. Engage the scapular adductors


d. Relax the body totally - Answer✔✔-b.


The primary goal of Rolling Like a Ball is:


a. Strengthen the upper back through the holding of the ankles


b. Massage the internal organs


c. Massage the spine


d. Reverse the typical movement pattern - Answer✔✔-c.


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