Utthita Hasta Padangusthasana
hold 20 s each side · intermediate · move in slowly, hold, come out the same way
Take care: Bend the lifted knee or keep the foot lower with a hamstring strain; stand by a wall if balance is unsteady.
Utthita Hasta Padangusthasana, with a strap. Standing tall on the right leg, a strap is looped round the ball of the left foot and held in the left hand; the straight left leg rises forward to about hip height while the right arm reaches out to the side for balance. The trunk stays upright; the centre of mass is solved over the standing foot.
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.
Hold for 20 seconds on each side: move into the pose slowly, breathe steadily, and come out the way you went in. Yoga is practised for control, balance and mobility, never to failure, so this does not change with your limits.
Level: intermediate. One round counts like light conditioning work: 62 legs points, 29 core points.
Hamstrings of the lifted leg (stretched), hip flexors and quadriceps of the lifted leg, gluteus medius of the standing leg, foot and ankle stabilisers, core.
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.