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Starfish

6 reps each side · beginner

Lying on the back with the knees bent, the feet flat and the arms long by the sides, one arm floats up and back overhead toward the mat while the opposite leg slides away along the mat until it is long; then both return. Then the other arm and leg. The pelvis and the ribs stay still.

-24°Ankle dorsiflexion
125°Knee flexion
59°Hip flexion
90°Trunk from vertical
9°Arm to trunk
3°Elbow flexion
18Ankle spacing, cm
47Hand 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
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

Lats
29 pts
Shoulders
22 pts
Abs and core
18 pts

Effort and your quota

3.5/10 effort3.5fatigue 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: 22 push points, 29 pull points, 18 core points.

Prime movers

Transversus abdominis and obliques (keeping the pelvis and ribs still), latissimus dorsi (lengthening), anterior deltoid, hip flexors.

What to look for

  • Breathe out as the arm and the opposite leg reach away, in as they come back.
  • Keep the ribs down as the arm goes overhead.
  • The pelvis does not rock as the leg slides.
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.