Step across and dropCentre of mass outside base of support
Off balance; Load 100% on the right
Side view
Drag to orbit, pinch or scroll to zoom

Barbell curtsy lunge

The rear foot steps diagonally behind and across the front foot with 40 kg on the back, then the pelvis drops. The crossed stance loads the outer hip of the front leg.

7°Ankle dorsiflexion
38°Knee flexion
33°Hip flexion
3°Trunk from vertical
37°Arm to trunk
138°Elbow flexion
8Ankle spacing, cm
84Hand spacing, cm
-1Knee outside ankle, cm
0°Knee cave, ° inside toe line
0 / 100Load left / right, %
0Pelvis drop, cm

Load and joint demand

Load in the model: 40 kg. Balance and joint demand re-solve as you change it.

Lower back
5 / 36
Hip extensors
1 / 24
Knee extensors
29 / 118
Calves
54 / 54

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

Glutes
100 pts
Quads
82 pts
Adductors
64 pts

Effort and your quota

7/10 effort7.3fatigue per set

Your quota per set: 10 reps at 40 kg, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

One hard set earns 246 legs points.

Prime movers

Gluteus medius and maximus, quadriceps, adductors.

What to look for

  • Hips stay square to the front.
  • Rear foot lands behind and across.
  • Keep the bar level.
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.