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Spine twist

4 reps each side · beginner

Sitting tall with the straight legs together, feet flexed, and the arms out to the sides at shoulder height, the trunk turns about 60° to the right in two small pulses, the hips and legs staying square, and returns to centre growing taller. The other side next. The head turns with the chest.

10°Ankle dorsiflexion
2°Knee flexion
89°Hip flexion
0°Trunk from vertical
90°Arm to trunk
3°Elbow flexion
8Ankle spacing, cm
171Hand spacing, cm
2Knee 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

Abs and core
35 pts
Lower back
29 pts
Upper back
8 pts
Shoulders
8 pts

Effort and your quota

4/10 effort4fatigue per set

4 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: 8 push points, 8 pull points, 64 core points.

Prime movers

Obliques, spinal erectors, transversus abdominis, middle trapezius and deltoids (holding the arms out).

What to look for

  • Grow tall before you turn; twist around a long spine.
  • Keep the legs level: neither foot slides forward.
  • Breathe out as you turn, two pulses; breathe in as you come back.
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.