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BASI Pilates Written Exam Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct| Grade A When and where was Joseph Pilates born?
Answer: Dusseldorf, Germany, 1883
What did Pilates do in England?
Answer: Worked was a war camp with rehab for sick and
disabled
When did he come to America?
Answer: Came to NYC in 1926
What is controlology?
Answer: When stabilizing muscle groups are encouraged to
work isometrically to maintain correct positioning and alignment.
What are the 10 principles of Pilates?
Answer: Awareness
Answer: Balance
Answer: Breath
Answer: Concentration
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Answer: Center
Answer: Control
Answer: Efficiency
Answer: Flow
Answer: Precision
Answer: Harmony
Answer: (all bad bitches can call Christy especially for precision
and harmony)
When are you in neutral pelvis?
Answer: When the ASIS and pubic symphysis is on the same
horizontal plane and two ASIS are on the same transverse plane
Can the spine be neutral when the pelvis is not?
Answer: When the spine is in neutral the pelvis must be neutral,
however, the pelvis may be neutral when the spine is not
What are the pros of using a neutral pelvis?
Answer: encourages muscular development and correct muscle
recruitment
Answer: teaches efficient posture and ideal alignment
Answer: pelvis alignment influences body segments above and
below it
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What are the benefits of breathing in Pilates?
Answer: -oxygenates blood
Answer: -improve circulation
Answer: -calm the mind and body
Answer: -encourage concentration
Answer: -recruit the appropriate muscles for the movements
Answer: -provide an 'inner' rhythm for the movements
What happens during the breathing cycle?
Answer: inhale- diaphragm lowers and enlarges cavity. pressure
inside the lungs is lower than the pressure outside
Answer: exhale- diaphragm relaxes and decreases volume of
cavity. increases pressure of the lungs and equalizes the pressure to the outside (air is forced out)
How much of the respiratory effort is the diaphragm responsible for?
Answer: 75%
What kind of breathing does Pilates use? and why?
Answer: lateral breathing of "intercostal breathing". it maintains
ab contraction while performing exercises during inhalation.
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What is shaped breathing?
Answer: using breathing patterns
What is Muscle Focus?
Answer: the muscle or group of muscles that is the primary
focus of the exercise
What are Objectives?
Answer: the objective describes the action of the muscle being
used. although there may be one muscle focus, there could be many objectives.
What are the Cues?
Answer: Cues are the actual execution of the exercise. precision
provides results. Cue is to communicate which leads to good understanding which leads to success
What are Movers?
Answer: generating or controlling movement
What are the Antagonists?