Pilates Apparatus Modifications: Chair, Tower, Cadillac, Barrels (PDF Guide)

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Your private client is on the Wunda chair and the Pull Up is not happening. On the reformer you would already have changed the springs. Here your hands reach for the lighter setting, and on this exercise that makes it harder, because on the chair the spring is what lifts her.

That is the question this library answers for 98 exercises on the chair, the tower, the cadillac and the barrels: she cannot do it as set, so what do you change, and which way is easier?

The rule fits on one page. At the hard moment of the exercise, either the spring is carrying some of her weight, or she is pushing against it. When it carries her (Pull Up, Going Up, the push-through bar loaded from above, the roll-down bar) more spring is easier. When she pushes against it (Footwork, the Swan on the chair, the arm springs) less spring is easier. The leg springs catch most teachers out: they look as if they hold the legs up, but a heavier spring pulls the pelvis into an arch, so lighter is easier there too.

Every entry applies that rule and names what the change takes off her, trunk control or pressing strength or her own body weight, so you can remove the thing she is failing and keep the rest. Where the published sources disagree (the bar loaded from below is the one place they split), the entry says so and changes the range instead of guessing at the spring.

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WHAT'S INCLUDED
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✔ 98 exercises: 33 on the Wunda and combo chair, 43 on the tower and cadillac, 22 on the arc, spine corrector and ladder barrel
✔ For each one, the easier option, the harder option, and two or three options for the body in front of you
✔ Which way is easier on every exercise, and the demand the change takes off her
✔ The one thing you will see that tells you to switch to the easier option, and on most entries the sign that she is ready to go back
✔ Ten movement needs used the same way on every page, from new to the apparatus to kneeling is not comfortable
✔ Find It By Need: every option for one need gathered across all three apparatus
✔ Which Way, At A Glance: the whole library as a four page index
✔ 98 printable cards, four to an A4 sheet, each with the easier option, the options for each body and the switch sign
✔ 3 diagrams and 16 line drawings made for this library, showing the easier option wherever it changes her position
✔ Two PDFs: the booklet (89 pages) and the cards (29 pages)

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PERFECT FOR
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• Reformer and mat teachers who also teach privates on the chair, tower or cadillac
• Comprehensive trainees on the chair, cadillac and barrel modules
• Studios running reformer-with-tower combos, where the frame is used in every class
• Teachers who own the shop's apparatus cueing or faults references and want the third piece

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WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT
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✓ It answers the question the reformer never made you ask: heavier or lighter for this one
✓ Every spring direction is backed by a source statement about that exercise or its station, and where the sources split the page says so
✓ The needs are what you can see her body doing today, never a diagnosis
✓ Advanced work (the hang, Flying Eagle, Long Spine, standing on the chair) gets a prep taught with you present, never an unsupervised version
✓ Loads are relative, light to heavy, because spring colours and hook positions differ between makers

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION
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• Instant download: two A4 PDFs, ready to print or read on a tablet
• Files are delivered as they are at purchase
• Calibrate every setting on your own apparatus

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DISCLAIMER
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This library is an educational reference for trained Pilates instructors. It does not diagnose, treat or replace the judgement of a qualified health professional. Where a client has a medical condition, recent surgery, a pregnancy or pain that changes with movement, refer her to her health professional before programming.

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