StepCentre of mass inside base of support
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Front-rack dumbbell carry

Two 16 kg dumbbells resting on the front of the shoulders, marching on the spot. The load ahead of the spine works the upper back and trunk.

3°Ankle dorsiflexion
2°Knee flexion
1°Hip flexion
2°Trunk from vertical
52°Arm to trunk
159°Elbow flexion
20Ankle spacing, cm
48Hand spacing, cm
-1Knee outside ankle, cm
–Knee cave, ° inside toe line
50 / 50Load left / right, %
0Pelvis drop, cm

Load and joint demand

Load in the model: 16 kg each hand. Balance and joint demand re-solve as you change it.

Lower back
45 / 45
Hip extensors
24 / 24
Knee extensors
28 / 61
Calves
40 / 80
Shoulder, per side
21 / 21
Elbow, per side
29 / 30

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
60 pts
Abs and core
49 pts
Glutes
28 pts
Shoulders
19 pts

Effort and your quota

4.5/10 effort4.5fatigue per set

Your quota per set: carry 16 kg each hand for 42 s, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

One hard set earns 28 legs points, 19 push points, 60 pull points, 49 core points.

Prime movers

Upper back, abdominals, deltoids (holding), gluteus medius.

What to look for

  • Keep the elbows up and the ribs down.
  • Stand tall; do not lean back.
  • Breathe behind the brace.
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.