Press, concentric
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Arnold press

Seated with back support, 18 kg dumbbells. Starts with palms facing you and elbows in front, then the elbows sweep out as the dumbbells press overhead.

-9°Ankle dorsiflexion
77°Knee flexion
77°Hip flexion
8°Trunk from vertical
35°Arm to trunk
157°Elbow flexion
40Ankle spacing, cm
28Hand spacing, cm
4Knee outside ankle, cm
–Knee cave, ° inside toe line
–Load left / right, %
0Pelvis drop, cm

Load and joint demand

Load in the model: 18 kg each hand. Balance and joint demand re-solve as you change it.

Shoulder, per side
27 / 27
Elbow, per side
33 / 50

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
Triceps
82 pts

Effort and your quota

2/10 effort2.1fatigue per set

Your quota per set: 10 reps at 18 kg each hand, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

One hard set earns 182 push points, 82 arms points.

Prime movers

Anterior and lateral deltoid, triceps.

What to look for

  • The elbows sweep from in front to out to the sides as you press.
  • More front delt than a standard dumbbell press.
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.