Clean, then pressBalanced over midfoot
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Kettlebell clean and press

Take care: Learn the clean and the press apart first.

A 16 kg bell cleaned from the backswing to the rack, then pressed strictly to lockout; lowered to the rack and dropped back into the swing. Right hand shown.

0°Ankle dorsiflexion
22°Knee flexion
78°Hip flexion
58°Trunk from vertical
33°Arm to trunk
14°Elbow flexion
40Ankle spacing, cm
38Hand spacing, cm
-4Knee outside ankle, cm
0°Knee cave, ° inside toe line
50 / 50Load 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
116 / 116
Hip extensors
81 / 81
Knee flexors
23 / 23
Calves
28 / 34
Shoulder, per side
46 / 46
Elbow, per side
18 / 29

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
Hamstrings
82 pts
Shoulders
64 pts
Triceps
46 pts
Upper back
35 pts
Abs and core
35 pts

Effort and your quota

7/10 effort7.3fatigue per set

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

One hard set earns 182 legs points, 110 push points, 35 pull points, 46 arms points, 35 core points.

Prime movers

Gluteus maximus, hamstrings, deltoids, triceps, upper trapezius, abdominals.

What to look for

  • Clean it close and pause in the rack.
  • Squeeze the glutes, then press.
  • Lower to the rack before the next swing.
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.