Roll back and turn
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Oblique roll-back

6 reps each side · beginner

Sitting tall with the knees bent, the feet flat and the arms reaching forward at shoulder height, the pelvis tucks and the spine rolls back about a third of the way to the mat while the trunk turns about 35° to the right, the right arm opening out and back behind and the eyes following it; then the arm returns, the trunk turns back to centre and curls up to sitting tall. Then the other side.

-39°Ankle dorsiflexion
97°Knee flexion
133°Hip flexion
2°Trunk from vertical
86°Arm to trunk
4°Elbow flexion
20Ankle spacing, cm
46Hand spacing, cm
3Knee 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
12 / 12

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
35 pts
Chest
4 pts

Effort and your quota

2/10 effort2fatigue per set

6 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: 4 push points, 35 core points.

Prime movers

Obliques (internal and external), rectus abdominis, transversus abdominis, hip flexors (holding); pectorals stretched (the opening arm).

What to look for

  • Roll back first, then rotate; stay at the same depth as you turn.
  • Follow the opening hand with your eyes; the front arm stays long.
  • Keep both feet heavy on the mat and the knees level.
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.