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Dumbbell frog pump

Glute bridge with the soles of the feet together, the knees falling out to the sides and a 16 kg dumbbell across the hips; short, fast reps.

7°Ankle dorsiflexion
148°Knee flexion
64°Hip flexion
92°Trunk from vertical
35°Arm to trunk
71°Elbow flexion
10Ankle spacing, cm
30Hand spacing, cm
41Knee outside ankle, cm
–Knee cave, ° inside toe line
–Load left / right, %
0Pelvis drop, cm

Load and joint demand

Load in the model: 16 kg. Balance and joint demand re-solve as you change it.

Shoulder, per side
50 / 50
Elbow, per side
28 / 28

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

Effort and your quota

3.5/10 effort3.7fatigue per set

Your quota per set: 10 reps at 16 kg, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

One hard set earns 100 legs points.

Prime movers

Gluteus maximus, gluteus medius, deep hip external rotators.

What to look for

  • Heels close to the glutes, knees wide.
  • Squeeze hard at the top of each rep.
  • Keep the dumbbell still on the hips.
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.