Pilates Cadillac Trapeze Table Programming Guide, Instructor Reference (PDF)

The Cadillac is the most versatile apparatus in the studio and the most underused. Most weeks the trapeze table does a few leg springs and a stretch, the push-through bar does the Tower, and the rest of the four-poster frame waits. The repertoire on it is deep, and so is the work no other apparatus can offer. What was missing is a way to program the whole thing.

This is the full Cadillac and Trapeze Table repertoire, compiled and organised so you can plan with it. Fifty-three exercises across five stations: the push-through bar, the roll-back bar, the leg springs, the arm springs, and the overhead trapeze and fuzzy loops. For each one you get where it sits, the relative spring load and its direction, what the apparatus adds that the mat and the carriage cannot, when to drop it into a class, and the one fault to watch.

Built for instructors who own the full apparatus and want to use all of it, including the hanging and suspended work a reformer with a tower cannot do. British English, relative spring load throughout, so it reads onto whatever Cadillac you teach on.

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WHAT'S INCLUDED
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✔ 53 Cadillac and trapeze table exercises, each programming-ready
✔ Five stations: push-through bar, roll-back bar, leg springs, arm springs, and the overhead trapeze and fuzzy loops
✔ Per exercise: set-up, relative spring and its direction, what it trains, when to program it, the fault to watch
✔ A second index that finds exercises by what the Cadillac adds: assisted articulation, supported extension, spring-resisted control, suspended and hanging strength, length and traction
✔ Every exercise tagged beginner, intermediate, or advanced
✔ The overhead and suspended work the reformer-tower combo cannot do, with a clear screen-and-refer note on every hanging exercise
✔ A4 booklet plus a set of printable reference cards
✔ Instant digital download, print at home or keep on your tablet

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PERFECT FOR
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• Instructors and studios who own a Cadillac or trapeze table and underuse it
• Comprehensive-cert trainees learning the Cadillac module
• Studio owners standardising how the full apparatus gets taught
• Reformer-with-tower teachers who want to understand the full apparatus their combo is part of

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WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT
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✓ Turns the most versatile apparatus in the studio into a programmable part of every class
✓ Find an exercise by station, or find one by the training effect you want
✓ Relative spring load and direction, never a colour, so it reads onto any Cadillac
✓ Programming decisions, not a movement tutorial, so it sits beside your flow plans rather than repeating them
✓ The overhead and hanging repertoire, programmed and safety-scoped, not just listed
✓ Clean, calm layout that holds up at a glance on the studio floor

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION
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• Digital download. No physical item is shipped.
• Two PDF files: an A4 booklet and a set of printable reference cards.
• Covers the full four-poster Cadillac and Trapeze Table. If you teach on a reformer-with-tower combo, the shared push-through, leg-spring and arm-spring work is here, and each entry points you to our Reformer Tower Programming Reference for the combo-specific detail.
• Spring colours are not universal between makers. Every load here is relative, with the direction it pulls, so it maps to your own apparatus.
• The hanging and suspended work is advanced and assumes a screened, experienced client. Every such exercise carries a screen-and-refer note.

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DISCLAIMER
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This reference is a professional teaching tool for qualified Pilates instructors. It describes how to program Cadillac and trapeze table exercises for healthy clients at general fitness levels. It is about apparatus programming and set-up, not assessment, diagnosis, treatment, or how to perform the movements. The hanging, inverted and suspended work is advanced and is not suitable for everyone. Where a client has low bone density, a recent or unhealed spinal injury, an unmanaged cardiovascular condition, raised eye pressure, or is pregnant or postnatal, screen for it and refer to a suitably qualified professional. The trapeze table is an apparatus, not a treatment. Any lengthening or traction described is a quality of the movement, not a therapy. Work within your own scope of practice and certification. Spring tensions and attachment points vary by machine. Always check your own apparatus.