RaiseBalanced over midfoot
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Alternating dumbbell front raise

8 kg dumbbells with an overhand grip; the right one rises forward to shoulder height with a straight arm while the left stays down, then they swap.

4°Ankle dorsiflexion
2°Knee flexion
3°Hip flexion
3°Trunk from vertical
9°Arm to trunk
6°Elbow flexion
26Ankle spacing, cm
56Hand spacing, cm
-2Knee outside ankle, cm
–Knee cave, ° inside toe line
50 / 50Load left / right, %
0Pelvis drop, cm

Load and joint demand

Load in the model: 8 kg each hand. Balance and joint demand re-solve as you change it.

Lower back
22 / 72
Hip extensors
12 / 36
Knee flexors
20 / 32
Calves
34 / 34
Shoulder, per side
10 / 64
Elbow, per side
5 / 29

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

Shoulders
100 pts
Chest
82 pts

Effort and your quota

3/10 effort3.1fatigue per set

Your quota per set: 10 reps at 8 kg each hand, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

One hard set earns 182 push points.

Prime movers

Anterior deltoid, clavicular pectoralis, serratus anterior.

What to look for

  • Stop around shoulder height.
  • No leaning back to swing the weight up.
  • Lower under control before the other arm starts.
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.