Descent, eccentricBalanced over midfoot
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Kettlebell front squat

Two 20 kg kettlebells held in the rack position against the chest, elbows down. The front-loaded weight keeps the trunk upright.

2°Ankle dorsiflexion
2°Knee flexion
16°Hip flexion
11°Trunk from vertical
20°Arm to trunk
153°Elbow flexion
40Ankle spacing, cm
26Hand 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: 20 kg each hand. Balance and joint demand re-solve as you change it.

Lower back
29 / 239
Hip extensors
8 / 139
Knee extensors
20 / 91
Calves
41 / 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

Quads
100 pts
Glutes
82 pts
Upper back
64 pts
Abs and core
46 pts

Effort and your quota

7.5/10 effort7.8fatigue per set

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

One hard set earns 182 legs points, 64 pull points, 46 core points.

Prime movers

Quadriceps, gluteus maximus, upper back, abdominals.

What to look for

  • Bells rest on the forearms, wrists straight.
  • Elbows stay tucked, pointing down.
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.