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Goblet Cossack squat

Very wide stance with a 12 kg dumbbell held at the chest; the pelvis travels sideways and down over the right foot while the left leg straightens out to the side. Balance is checked against the whole base.

-6°Ankle dorsiflexion
5°Knee flexion
26°Hip flexion
5°Trunk from vertical
45°Arm to trunk
133°Elbow flexion
90Ankle spacing, cm
14Hand spacing, cm
-18Knee outside ankle, cm
–Knee cave, ° inside toe line
51 / 49Load left / right, %
0Pelvis drop, cm

Load and joint demand

Load in the model: 12 kg. Balance and joint demand re-solve as you change it.

Lower back
52 / 112
Hip extensors
28 / 67
Knee extensors
27 / 51
Calves
41 / 42
Shoulder, per side
34 / 34
Elbow, per side
38 / 41

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

Adductors
100 pts
Quads
82 pts
Glutes
64 pts
Upper back
23 pts

Effort and your quota

7/10 effort7.3fatigue per set

Your quota per set: 10 reps at 12 kg, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

One hard set earns 246 legs points, 23 pull points.

Prime movers

Adductors, quadriceps, gluteus maximus, upper back (holding).

What to look for

  • Keep the heel of the bent leg down.
  • The straight leg stretches the inner thigh; toes can point up.
  • Hold the dumbbell close to counterbalance.
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.