Descent, eccentricBalanced over midfoot
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Goblet box squat

Wide stance with a 20 kg dumbbell held at the chest, sitting back to a bench at parallel: shins more upright than a goblet squat. The bench height is taken from the solved bottom position.

1°Ankle dorsiflexion
2°Knee flexion
17°Hip flexion
11°Trunk from vertical
55°Arm to trunk
127°Elbow flexion
48Ankle spacing, cm
14Hand spacing, cm
-7Knee 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
24 / 186
Hip extensors
7 / 109
Knee extensors
16 / 63
Calves
34 / 34
Shoulder, per side
64 / 65
Elbow, per side
51 / 64

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
Adductors
64 pts
Hamstrings
46 pts
Upper back
17 pts

Effort and your quota

8/10 effort8.3fatigue per set

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

One hard set earns 292 legs points, 17 pull points.

Prime movers

Gluteus maximus, quadriceps, adductors, hamstrings, upper back (holding).

What to look for

  • Sit back until you touch the bench; do not drop onto it.
  • Keep the chest up and the dumbbell close.
  • Drive up through the whole foot.
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.