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Kettlebell glute bridge

Lying on the back with the feet flat and a 24 kg bell resting on the hips, held steady by the horns; the hips rise until shoulders, hips and knees line up.

-19°Ankle dorsiflexion
134°Knee flexion
62°Hip flexion
92°Trunk from vertical
45°Arm to trunk
57°Elbow flexion
24Ankle spacing, cm
14Hand spacing, cm
6Knee outside ankle, cm
–Knee cave, ° inside toe line
–Load 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.

Shoulder, per side
133 / 133
Elbow, per side
82 / 82

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

Effort and your quota

5/10 effort5.2fatigue per set

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

One hard set earns 182 legs points.

Prime movers

Gluteus maximus, hamstrings.

What to look for

  • Hold the bell still on the hip bones.
  • Squeeze at the top; do not arch further.
  • Drive through the heels.
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.