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Hey Debinmi, I don't have LITE or ICE...and I don't remember which XT has them.

Can you remind me which workout has them?
 
From the description in this video, I believe windmills are supposed to be hitting your back:

I find if I bend my front knee a little bit, the move feels better.
 
My feet are also both at 45°.
Shove straight leg hip out... then initiate descent.

Front leg slightly bends as you descend.

Hold your weight only in hand going to the bottom until you get the hang of shoving your hip out. Might even be helpful to start out with no weight to get the muscle mind connection.

Let that hand with weight shave the inner thigh to ankle.

Initiate the movement ascending in the straight leg by envisioning pushing the floor with foot of the back/straight and tense that glute as you rise.

I actually love this exercise unweighted as mobility as a warmup and between strength sets. Learned this from Lauren Brooks.
 
I don't know if this will help but I kind liken the move to triangle pose in yoga. I think if you are comfortable doing that, the windmill may come naturally. Maybe try the yoga pose and then windmill with weights will make sense.
 

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