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Leg slides

8 reps each side · beginner

Lying on the back with the knees bent, the feet flat and the arms long by the sides, one heel slides away along the mat until the leg is long, then draws back to the start, while the pelvis stays still and level. A test of pelvic stability.

-24°Ankle dorsiflexion
125°Knee flexion
59°Hip flexion
90°Trunk from vertical
29°Arm to trunk
53°Elbow flexion
18Ankle spacing, cm
60Hand spacing, cm
0Knee outside ankle, cm
–Knee cave, ° inside toe line
–Load left / right, %
0Pelvis drop, cm

Load and joint demand

Bodyweight: no weights. Joint demand below is your own body's weight in this position.

Shoulder, per side
11 / 11

N·m now / peak over the rep.

Faults

Faults grow with knee bend and apply to lifts standing on the floor. The fault check flags a knee caving more than 10° inside the line of the toes and a load split beyond 60/40. Knee cave shows best in the front camera.

Body

Femur changes keep standing height fixed by shortening or lengthening the torso. Longer femurs force more forward lean in any squat.

Muscles worked

Abs and core
29 pts
Quads
22 pts

Effort and your quota

3.5/10 effort3.5fatigue per set

8 slow, controlled reps on each side. Pilates is practised for control, balance and mobility, never to failure, so this does not change with your limits.

Level: beginner. One round counts like light conditioning work: 22 legs points, 29 core points.

Prime movers

Transversus abdominis and obliques (keeping the pelvis still), hip flexors (drawing the leg back), quadriceps.

What to look for

  • Breathe out as the leg slides away, in as it returns.
  • Keep the weight even on both sides of the pelvis; nothing rocks.
  • Slide the heel lightly, as if on ice.
How the model works, and its limits

One 3D skeleton drives both views. Segment lengths and widths are Winter's anthropometric ratios of height; segment masses and centre-of-mass positions follow Dempster's data. For free-standing lifts the whole-body angle is found numerically so the combined centre of mass of lifter and load sits over the middle of the foot. Arms and legs use two-link inverse kinematics with a pole direction. Rep timing follows a minimum-jerk profile.

Balance is quasi-static, so ballistic lifts are shown slowed down. Cable pull and pad support forces are not modelled. The spine is one rigid segment and joints have no range-of-motion limits or muscle forces.