Curl up and turn
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Chest lift with rotation

8 reps each side · beginner

Take care: Let the hands support the head without pulling on it; skip it during pregnancy and after giving birth until the abdominals have recovered.

A chest lift that turns at the top: lying on the back with the knees bent, the feet flat and the hands behind the head, the head and shoulders curl up about 30°, then the trunk rotates about 35° toward the right, the left elbow and shoulder reaching across, while the pelvis stays still. Back to centre and down, then the other side.

-23°Ankle dorsiflexion
125°Knee flexion
59°Hip flexion
90°Trunk from vertical
149°Arm to trunk
134°Elbow flexion
18Ankle spacing, cm
8Hand spacing, cm
4Knee 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.

No gravity-based joint demand to show for this exercise.

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

Effort and your quota

2/10 effort2fatigue 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: 35 core points.

Prime movers

Obliques (internal and external), rectus abdominis, transversus abdominis.

What to look for

  • Curl up first, then rotate; stay at the same height as you turn.
  • Turn the ribs, not the elbows: keep them wide.
  • Keep both hips heavy and level on the mat.
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.