RowBalanced over midfoot
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Dumbbell rear delt row

Hinged to about 75° with 12 kg dumbbells held overhand; the elbows pull up and out wide until the upper arms are level with the shoulders, the forearms hanging below them.

-7°Ankle dorsiflexion
22°Knee flexion
103°Hip flexion
75°Trunk from vertical
72°Arm to trunk
23°Elbow flexion
30Ankle spacing, cm
38Hand spacing, cm
-2Knee outside ankle, cm
0°Knee cave, ° inside toe line
50 / 50Load left / right, %
0Pelvis drop, cm

Load and joint demand

Load in the model: 12 kg each hand. Balance and joint demand re-solve as you change it.

Lower back
240 / 260
Hip extensors
148 / 158
Knee flexors
61 / 66
Calves
37 / 37
Shoulder, per side
1 / 46
Elbow, per side
8 / 19

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

Effort and your quota

2/10 effort2.1fatigue per set

Your quota per set: 10 reps at 12 kg each hand, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

One hard set earns 100 pull points.

Prime movers

Posterior deltoid, middle trapezius, rhomboids, infraspinatus.

What to look for

  • Pull the elbows out wide, not back to the hips.
  • Upper arms finish level with the shoulders.
  • Keep the torso still.
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.