Hike backBalanced over midfoot
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Dumbbell swing

Take care: A ballistic hip hinge: keep the back flat and learn the hinge first if your lower back is sore.

One 20 kg dumbbell held by its handle in both hands and swung between the legs to chest height from a hip hinge to about 60°. Shown quasi-statically: the real lift is ballistic and momentum carries the dumbbell.

-3°Ankle dorsiflexion
12°Knee flexion
18°Hip flexion
2°Trunk from vertical
80°Arm to trunk
23°Elbow flexion
44Ankle spacing, cm
11Hand spacing, cm
-6Knee outside ankle, cm
–Knee cave, ° inside toe line
50 / 50Load left / right, %
0Pelvis drop, cm

Load and joint demand

Load in the model: 20 kg. Balance and joint demand re-solve as you change it.

Lower back
158 / 205
Hip extensors
80 / 117
Knee flexors
40 / 51
Calves
35 / 35
Shoulder, per side
140 / 140
Elbow, per side
68 / 69

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
Hamstrings
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 20 kg, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

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

Prime movers

Gluteus maximus, hamstrings, spinal erectors, grip.

What to look for

  • Snap the hips forward; the arms just guide the dumbbell.
  • Stand tall at the top, like a plank.
  • Hike it back high between the legs.
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.