RowBalanced over midfoot
Side view
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Alternating dumbbell row

Hinged to about 55° with 22 kg dumbbells hanging from straight arms; the right one rows to the hip while the left stays long, then they swap. The trunk resists the twist the one-sided pull creates.

-4°Ankle dorsiflexion
24°Knee flexion
83°Hip flexion
55°Trunk from vertical
44°Arm to trunk
23°Elbow flexion
32Ankle spacing, cm
38Hand spacing, cm
-2Knee outside ankle, cm
0°Knee cave, ° inside toe line
50 / 50Load left / right, %
0Pelvis drop, cm

Load and joint demand

Load in the model: 22 kg each hand. Balance and joint demand re-solve as you change it.

Lower back
275 / 275
Hip extensors
166 / 166
Knee flexors
61 / 61
Calves
44 / 44
Shoulder, per side
1 / 47
Elbow, per side
15 / 42

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

Lats
100 pts
Upper back
82 pts
Biceps
35 pts
Abs and core
35 pts

Effort and your quota

4.5/10 effort4.7fatigue per set

Your quota per set: 10 reps at 22 kg each hand, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

One hard set earns 203 pull points, 35 arms points, 35 core points.

Prime movers

Latissimus dorsi, rhomboids, middle trapezius, posterior deltoid, biceps, obliques.

What to look for

  • Keep the chest square to the floor as each side rows.
  • Pull toward the hip, elbow close to the body.
  • Lower all the way before the other side 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.