Dip
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Dumbbell jump squat

Light 8 kg dumbbells hanging at the sides: a counter-movement dip, extension through the toes and about 20 cm of flight, then the reverse for the landing. Momentum is not modelled, so there is no balance check.

3°Ankle dorsiflexion
2°Knee flexion
5°Hip flexion
3°Trunk from vertical
5°Arm to trunk
0°Elbow flexion
30Ankle spacing, cm
44Hand spacing, cm
-3Knee outside ankle, cm
–Knee cave, ° inside toe line
–Load left / right, %
0Pelvis drop, cm

Load and joint demand

Load in the model: 8 kg each hand. Balance and joint demand re-solve as you change it.

No gravity-based joint demand to show for this exercise.

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

Quads
100 pts
Glutes
82 pts
Calves and shins
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 8 kg each hand, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

One hard set earns 227 legs points, 23 arms points.

Prime movers

Quadriceps, gluteus maximus, calves, grip.

What to look for

  • Keep the dumbbells light; the jump is the point.
  • Land softly and sink straight into the next dip.
  • Keep the arms long and the chest up.
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.