Pilates plié, second position
10 reps · beginner
Take care: Turn the feet out only as far as the knees can follow them; keep the bend shallow with a painful knee.
Standing tall with the feet wide (second position), the legs turned out from the hips so the toes point out about 40°, the arms open to the sides. The knees bend out over the toes and the body lowers straight down, the trunk upright and the heels down, then the legs straighten back up, squeezing the inner thighs.
Bodyweight: no weights. Joint demand below is your own body's weight in this position.
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.
Femur changes keep standing height fixed by shortening or lengthening the torso. Longer femurs force more forward lean in any squat.
10 slow, controlled reps. 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: 86 legs points, 6 core points.
Quadriceps, adductors, gluteus maximus, deep hip rotators (holding the turn-out), transversus abdominis (keeping the trunk upright).
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.