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Side-lying double leg lift

Banana

8 reps each side · beginner

Lying on the right side in one long line, head on the outstretched bottom arm and the top hand on the mat in front of the chest, both legs straight and pressed together, about 10° forward of the body. Both legs lift together about 20 cm off the mat and lower again; the waist on the mat side lifts away from the floor to do it.

-30°Ankle dorsiflexion
3°Knee flexion
13°Hip flexion
80°Trunk from vertical
171°Arm to trunk
0°Elbow flexion
0Ankle spacing, cm
27Hand spacing, cm
-5Knee outside ankle, cm
–Knee cave, ° inside toe line
–Load left / right, %
-17Pelvis 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

Lower back
35 pts
Abs and core
35 pts
Adductors
29 pts
Glutes
16 pts

Effort and your quota

6.5/10 effort6.5fatigue 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: 45 legs points, 70 core points.

Prime movers

Obliques and quadratus lumborum (both sides), adductors (pressing the legs together; the bottom leg lifting), gluteus medius (the top leg), transversus abdominis.

What to look for

  • Squeeze the legs together as if they were one.
  • Lift from the waist: the bottom ribs and the bottom waist rise off the mat.
  • Lower slowly; keep the body in one long line.
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.