In a lunge position, what movement occurs at the pelvis for the back leg?

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In a lunge, the back leg’s pelvis moves with an anterior tilt and an inward rotation. Anterior tilt helps keep the spine tall and accommodates the hip position of the back leg as you lower, while inward rotation aligns the pelvis with the forward leg and helps keep the knee tracking over the foot as weight shifts forward. If the back leg hip were driving a posterior tilt, you’d expect the pelvis to tilt backward with greater hip extension, which isn’t the typical pattern here. Outward rotation would tilt the pelvis away from the midline, and no tilt would fail to reflect the stabilizing adjustments your body makes during the descent.