Pilates Reformer Induction All Online Course

This course is a first step for a Pilates Matwork Instructor or Physiotherapist to teach on the Pilates Reformer. At the conclusion of this course and its assessments the Instructor will be able to gain Industry Insurance to teach Pilates Reformer exercises taught on this course and to run a Pilates Induction session for those clients new to Pilates Reformer.

NB If you are a UK based instructor teaching for money in the UK you will need to have taken the Mbodies UK Pilates Studio Health & Safety lecture and passed the multiple choice associated with it before we can give you your certificate for this course (there is an option to include this in your booking when you Register)

Register Now!Price for this course �370.00 UKP. This price includes All online lessons, Online support from Mbodies Tutors, Online Assessment to finish the course. There is an option to buy a recommended Pilates Reformer Manual for �25.00 and if necessary the Health & Safety Lecture �50.00 ina ddition to the course itself.

In addition to the online assessment you wll be expected to deliver two video recordings with sound of you teaching the Reformer Induction workout to two different adults.

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The objectives of this course are to allow any qualified Pilates Matwork Instructor or medical movement practitioner such as a Physiotherapist to gain insurance to call themselves a Pilates Reformer Instructor and to teach the 30 or so exercises taught on this course together with normal progressions and regressions for those exercises.

As a student on this course you will learn the anatomy of the Pilates Reformer and the safe use of all of the parts before learning the safe tuition pointers for a client working in lying, seated, kneeling and standing positions using the basic reformer and in addition a Reformer Short / Long Box and a Reformer Jumpboard accessory.

You will then learn yourself a Reformer workout - referred to as the 'Reformer Induction Workout' and then work with others to be able to competently teach this workout by the end of the course.

In addition to the Reformer Repertoire included in the 'Induction Workout' you will learn exercises related to different components of the Reformer in the following 7 categories.

Lesson 1 :- Footwork
Lesson 2 :- Legs in Straps
Lesson 3 :- Hands in Straps
Lesson 4 :- Long Box & Short Box
Lesson 5 :- Elephant Series
Lesson 6 :- Stretches
Lesson 7 :- Jumpboard

In addition to the online assessment you wll be expected to deliver two video recordings with sound of you teaching the Reformer Induction workout to two different adults.

Pilates Studio Reformer Induction Course

Pilates Studio Health and Safety

If you have not already taken it you will need to enrol for the Studio Health & Safety Lecture (Cost �50.00) ina ddition to this course - you can do this when you click Register now

This lecture needs to be watched through – We suggest taking some notes - Having completed this lecture and when you feel ready please let us know and we will provide a login and password for an ‘Open Book’ Online Multiple Choice test (this is where your notes will be helpful) requiring an 85% pass rate to complete this module

Pilates Studio Reformer Induction

The aim of this course is to make sure that you are familiar with the Reformer its parts and how to use the Reformer in different Body positions with the different tools like Footbar, Leg straps, Arm Straps, Reformer Box etc. and that you are competent and safe in Introducing the Reformer to members of the public who have not been on one before.

To achieve this you are expected to be able to perform yourself the 30 or so Reformer exercises chosen for this course and to be able to teach the individual exercises and then that you can teach a motivating 45 minute Reformer class that you have pre-learned. We are not just looking at exercise knowledge but your skills in meeting and greeting, keeping the class flowing with minimum delays and concluding the workout with a call to action style sign-off.

The Assessment for this part of the course is by one on one approximately 1 hour Zoom style assessment with one of our Tutors in which you prove your ability to Perform and teach the Repertoire which includes verbal questioning about Safety on the reformer together with your knowledge about Parts of the Reformer and how they work. as well as TWO Unedited video productions with good quality Audio as well as wide angle visual of the whole reformer which you shoot at home / work and provide to us on a USB stick or uploaded to a portal or You Tube - where we can see you teach two people your full Induction workout

Induction Workout

You need to take this class a few times before you start to teach it to family or friends (you can see this class before enrolling on the Reformer induction page on the Mbodies Website.

You will find most of the exercises in the 7 Repertoire videos for this course - each Video is a Lesson L1 – L7 and the exercise list for each lesson gives the Exercise number - so L3.5 is Lesson 3 exercise 5. You

Induction Repertoire

These are the 7 Repertoire Lessons

Lesson 1 :- Footwork

Lesson 2 :- Legs in Straps

Lesson 3 :- Hands in Straps

Lesson 4 :- Long Box & Short Box

Lesson 5 :- Elephant Series

Lesson 6 :- Stretches

Lesson 7 :- Jumpboard

Tutor Support

Whilst we believe that the Videos and instructions should make unsupported learning possible for many instructors, Built into this course is access to Tutor Support which can be given by email exchange, video conferencing or face to face – depending on the subject area and the requirement for learning.

In addition to the online assessment you wll be expected to deliver two video recordings with sound of you teaching the Reformer Induction workout to two different adults.