Hot Pilates Instructor Guide, Heat Safety, 10 Class Plans (PDF)

Your studio has put the heaters on, and you are teaching the class you already know in a room at 35 °C. Your training said nothing about heat. This guide gives you the signs to watch in a heated room and the point where a member stops, the questions to ask at the door, what the heat changes in each mat exercise, and ten classes built for it.

A 67-page illustrated reference for qualified Pilates teachers running heated or infrared mat classes. Every safety line is drawn from sports medicine and public health guidance on heat illness, with the sources listed.

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WHAT'S INCLUDED
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✔ The Heat Ladder: 18 signs on four rungs, from ordinary heat to heat stroke. Each has what you see, what it means, the first thing you do, what you say to her, and what happens next, with the line where her class ends
✔ Before the Heat: 24 people the heat changes something for (medicines, conditions, pregnancy, illness this week, a first class), each with the question to ask at the door and who she checks with. You ask and refer; you never advise on a medicine
✔ The Heat Flags: seven things the heat changes about an exercise, such as rising from the floor, the head below the heart, a long hold and weight on wet hands, so you can read a class plan before you teach it
✔ The Exercise Index: 55 mat exercises, each flagged, with what the heat changes and the one change for a heated room
✔ The first two weeks: acclimatisation rules for a new member and a member coming back
✔ 21 heated-room situations with what to do and what not to do, from a member leaving mid-class to a slip on a wet mat
✔ 10 heated classes from beginner to intermediate, plus a class for a member's first two weeks and one for a heatwave day
✔ 14 line drawings of the heated versions and 6 diagrams (where the heat comes from, the heat ladder, the slow rise, the room plan, the seven flags, the shape of a heated class), plus a sources list

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PERFECT FOR
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• Mat teachers picking up heated or infrared classes on a new timetable
• Studio owners launching hot Pilates who want the team working to one protocol
• Teachers whose member went light-headed standing up and who want to know what to watch for next time
• Yoga studios adding hot Pilates to the schedule

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WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT
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✓ Every sign comes with the first thing you do, so you act instead of guessing
✓ It tells you plainly that a member who is still sweating can still be in heat stroke
✓ The flags let you read a class plan for heat before you teach it
✓ The door questions never ask a member to name a medicine, and every answer goes to her doctor or pharmacist
✓ Grounded in the ACSM consensus on exertional heat illness, NHS and CDC guidance and the published hot yoga research, with every number labelled as what it is

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION
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• Instant digital download: one PDF, 67 A4 pages
• Read on a tablet or print the pages you use
• Written for heated-air and infrared mat classes
• This is a digital file. Nothing physical will be posted

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DISCLAIMER
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For qualified Pilates teachers. This guide does not diagnose and is not medical advice. It names medicines only to explain why you ask, never to advise on them, and every answer goes to the member's doctor, pharmacist or specialist. Pregnancy is routed to an unheated class. Every sign of heat stroke is an emergency: call emergency services, cool her and stay with her. The guide does not replace first aid training or your studio's emergency procedure and set temperature.