Shaving the head
8 reps · beginner
From the classical standing arm series: standing in pilates stance with the body tipped slightly forward from the ankles, the hands meet in a diamond behind the head, elbows wide. The arms press up and forward on a diagonal until straight, as if shaving the back of the head, and bend back down behind it. Done here without the light hand weights.
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.
8 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: 64 push points, 16 pull points, 35 arms points, 12 core points.
Triceps, deltoids, serratus anterior, lower trapezius, spinal erectors and transversus abdominis (holding the lean).
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.