PullBalanced over midfoot
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Face pull

Rope from a pulley at head height. Hands travel from arms-extended to beside the ears with the elbows high and wide; whole-body lean is solved from body mass only, since cable force is not modelled.

4°Ankle dorsiflexion
2°Knee flexion
6°Hip flexion
1°Trunk from vertical
114°Arm to trunk
48°Elbow flexion
32Ankle spacing, cm
12Hand spacing, cm
-4Knee outside ankle, cm
–Knee cave, ° inside toe line
50 / 50Load left / right, %
0Pelvis drop, cm

Load and joint demand

Machine or cable load (20 kg at this setting) is not modelled, so joint demand shows the body only.

Lower back
135 / 135
Hip extensors
67 / 67
Knee flexors
75 / 75
Calves
91 / 91
Shoulder, per side
128 / 128
Elbow, per side
69 / 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

Upper back
100 pts

Effort and your quota

2/10 effort2.1fatigue per set

Your quota per set: 10 reps at 20 kg, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

One hard set earns 100 pull points.

Prime movers

Posterior deltoid, middle and lower trapezius, rotator cuff (external rotators).

What to look for

  • Elbows finish level with or above the hands.
  • Pull the rope apart as it comes to the face.
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.