Stand upBalanced over midfoot
Load 72% on the right
Side view
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Dumbbell suitcase deadlift

One 30 kg dumbbell held at the right side with a neutral grip and lowered to below the knee with a hip hinge and a deep knee bend, the other hand free. The one-sided load pulls the body sideways; the load split between the feet shows it.

5°Ankle dorsiflexion
4°Knee flexion
5°Hip flexion
3°Trunk from vertical
7°Arm to trunk
0°Elbow flexion
30Ankle spacing, cm
57Hand spacing, cm
-3Knee outside ankle, cm
–Knee cave, ° inside toe line
28 / 72Load left / right, %
0Pelvis drop, cm

Load and joint demand

Load in the model: 30 kg. Balance and joint demand re-solve as you change it.

Lower back
17 / 195
Hip extensors
10 / 120
Knee extensors
17 / 55
Calves
39 / 39
Shoulder, per side
25 / 25
Elbow, per side
12 / 12

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
Quads
82 pts
Abs and core
64 pts
Lower back
46 pts
Forearms and grip
35 pts

Effort and your quota

7.5/10 effort7.8fatigue per set

Your quota per set: 10 reps at 30 kg, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

One hard set earns 182 legs points, 18 arms points, 110 core points.

Prime movers

Gluteus maximus, quadriceps, obliques, quadratus lumborum, grip.

What to look for

  • Hold the dumbbell at your side with a neutral grip.
  • Stay square; do not lean toward the bell.
  • Watch the load split in the readouts.
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.