Mat Pilates Class Planner for Instructors, Sequence Builder with 59 Drawn Exercise Cards, PDF

Sunday night, five mat classes to plan, and the same ten exercises again because they are the ones you can see in your head. This builder lays the whole mat repertoire on the table as drawn cards. Cut them out, place them on the planning mat, and build the class by hand, card by card. Every card names its position, so before you teach it you can see each time the room has to roll over, sit up, turn onto the other side or get onto its feet.

Mat Sequence Builder is a printable planning tool for mat Pilates instructors who write their own classes. The bank holds 59 exercises from the warm-up on the back to standing, beginner to advanced, each drawn on its own card with the one cue, the set-up and the reps. In place of a spring setting, each card carries a gravity line: what gravity pulls on in that exercise and which part of the body lifts, lowers or holds against it. The planning mat has eighteen card-sized slots in eight sections, each printed with the position it runs in. Six written plans show what a finished mat looks like, with every move between positions named on the line where it happens.

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WHAT'S INCLUDED
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✔ 59 exercise cards, every one drawn, eight to an A4 sheet with cut margins
✔ Eight sections in class order: warm-up, abdominals, roll and invert, seated, prone, side-lying, kneeling and plank, standing
✔ A level on every card: 33 beginner, 19 intermediate, 7 advanced (Roll Over, Jackknife, Control Balance, Boomerang, Hip Circles, Swan Dive, Rocking)
✔ A gravity line on every card, checked against a phase-by-phase anatomy reference
✔ 13 blank cards in the same design for your own exercises
✔ The planning mat: 18 card-sized slots over three pages, an option and reps line under every slot
✔ Six written plans: two beginner blocks, intermediate, mixed room (with the stronger client's card named), advanced, and a 30-minute express class
✔ The class arc diagram, a page on what gravity does on the mat, a page on what each change of position costs, the bank on one table and a classes-built tracker
✔ 29 pages, A4 PDF

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PERFECT FOR
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• Newly qualified mat instructors writing their first weeks of classes
• Experienced teachers in a rut who want the whole repertoire in front of them
• Teachers with a mixed timetable who build beginner, intermediate and mixed rooms from one bank
• Studio owners who want a shared planning method their team can follow

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WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT
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✓ You plan with your hands, moving cards until the class reads well
✓ The position on each card shows where the class will stall before you teach it
✓ The gravity line tells you why a longer lever is harder, in words you can say to a client
✓ Every exercise drawn in one consistent line style, so a card reads from across the table
✓ The plans count their moves, so you can compare your own plan with them

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION
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• Digital download: one A4 PDF (29 pages). No physical item is sent.
• Print the card sheets single-sided at 100% scale on card stock if you have it, and cut on the outer lines. Print the mat on plain paper as often as you like.
• For personal teaching use. Please do not resell or share the file.

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DISCLAIMER
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This builder is a professional resource for trained Pilates instructors. It is not medical advice. Clients with an injury, a pregnancy or a medical condition should clear their exercise with their healthcare provider before class. Advanced cards, the inversions most of all, are for clients who already own the intermediate cards in the same section; use them with your own training and judgment in the room.