As you become more confident and experienced in using the reformer, you will be starting to adjust your springs on your own, to tailor the resistance to your body strength and how your body feeels that day.
Some useful tips on picking the right spring;
- Red: 1 full load spring of 45lb / 20 kg.
- Blue: 1/2 load spring.
- Yellow: 1/4 load spring.
- All Red springs are the same.
- At least 1 spring MUST be always hooked on the reformer for SAFETY.
- The bottom row of hooks is the Standard spring bar position.
- The top row of hooks (hidden under the platform) is the Top / Pre-loaded spring bar position for fine adjustment or extra load.
- It is not always a heavier spring that increase the challenge on an exercise!Some exercises may require a lighter spring to increase the level of effort, if in doubt, ask us 🙂
- If you need to regress an exercise, very often a lighter spring combination may be required. However, some exercises again may require a heavier spring to regress it!
