Jump and pullCentre of mass inside base of support
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Clean-grip high pull

A 50 kg bar on a clean grip from the hang above the knees: an explosive extension onto the toes, then the elbows pull high and out so the bar rises to chest height. A simpler way to train the power of the clean.

3°Ankle dorsiflexion
2°Knee flexion
5°Hip flexion
1°Trunk from vertical
9°Arm to trunk
2°Elbow flexion
30Ankle spacing, cm
56Hand spacing, cm
-3Knee outside ankle, cm
–Knee cave, ° inside toe line
50 / 50Load left / right, %
0Pelvis drop, cm

Load and joint demand

Load in the model: 50 kg. Balance and joint demand re-solve as you change it.

Lower back
13 / 249
Hip extensors
7 / 152
Knee flexors
18 / 18
Calves
39 / 39
Shoulder, per side
24 / 38
Elbow, per side
10 / 60

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

Upper back
100 pts
Glutes
46 pts
Hamstrings
35 pts
Calves and shins
35 pts

Effort and your quota

5/10 effort5.2fatigue per set

Your quota per set: 10 reps at 50 kg, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

One hard set earns 106 legs points, 100 pull points.

Prime movers

Trapezius, posterior deltoid, upper back, gluteus maximus, hamstrings, calves.

What to look for

  • Jump first, then pull with the elbows.
  • Elbows high and out, above the hands.
  • Bar stays close to the body.
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.