Descent, eccentricBalanced over midfoot
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Heels-elevated goblet squat

Goblet squat with the heels on a 4 cm wedge. The raised heels let the knees travel further forward, so the solved trunk stays more upright at the same depth.

-5°Ankle dorsiflexion
3°Knee flexion
19°Hip flexion
14°Trunk from vertical
37°Arm to trunk
133°Elbow flexion
41Ankle spacing, cm
14Hand 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: 24 kg. Balance and joint demand re-solve as you change it.

Lower back
8 / 155
Hip extensors
3 / 90
Knee extensors
7 / 111
Calves
29 / 29
Shoulder, per side
68 / 68
Elbow, per side
66 / 79

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

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

Effort and your quota

7.5/10 effort7.8fatigue per set

Your quota per set: 10 reps at 25 kg, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

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

Prime movers

Quadriceps, gluteus maximus, adductors, upper back (holding).

What to look for

  • Knees travel well past the toes; that is the point.
  • Good option when ankle mobility limits depth.
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.