Pass right to leftBalanced over midfoot
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Kettlebell around the world

Standing tall, a 16 kg bell passed from hand to hand around the waist: the right hand carries it round the right side to the back, the left takes it round the left side to the front. Then the other way.

1°Ankle dorsiflexion
2°Knee flexion
4°Hip flexion
1°Trunk from vertical
27°Arm to trunk
71°Elbow flexion
28Ankle spacing, cm
10Hand spacing, cm
-3Knee outside ankle, cm
–Knee cave, ° inside toe line
47 / 53Load left / right, %
0Pelvis drop, cm

Load and joint demand

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

Lower back
55 / 55
Hip extensors
28 / 28
Knee flexors
28 / 28
Calves
34 / 34
Shoulder, per side
28 / 36
Elbow, per side
26 / 26

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

Abs and core
100 pts
Forearms and grip
64 pts
Shoulders
46 pts

Effort and your quota

2.5/10 effort2.6fatigue per set

Your quota per set: 10 reps at 16 kg, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

One hard set earns 46 push points, 32 arms points, 100 core points.

Prime movers

Obliques, transversus abdominis, grip, deltoids.

What to look for

  • Hips and shoulders stay still.
  • Pass the bell cleanly behind the back.
  • Change direction every few laps.
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.