Hinge downBalanced over midfoot
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Double kettlebell Romanian deadlift

Take care: Keep the back flat; stop where the hamstrings stop you.

A 24 kg bell hanging in each hand in front of the thighs; the hips push back to a hinge of about 70° with soft knees.

5°Ankle dorsiflexion
10°Knee flexion
8°Hip flexion
3°Trunk from vertical
13°Arm to trunk
0°Elbow flexion
26Ankle spacing, cm
24Hand 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: 24 kg each hand. Balance and joint demand re-solve as you change it.

Lower back
72 / 400
Hip extensors
38 / 235
Knee flexors
20 / 102
Calves
46 / 46
Shoulder, per side
31 / 38
Elbow, per side
15 / 18

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

Hamstrings
100 pts
Glutes
82 pts
Lower back
64 pts
Forearms and grip
46 pts

Effort and your quota

6.5/10 effort6.8fatigue per set

Your quota per set: 10 reps at 24 kg each hand, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

One hard set earns 182 legs points, 23 arms points, 64 core points.

Prime movers

Hamstrings, gluteus maximus, spinal erectors, grip.

What to look for

  • Bells slide down the front of the thighs.
  • Hips back, soft knees.
  • Shoulders pulled back, back flat.
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.