Circle rightBalanced over midfoot
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Kettlebell halo

Standing, a 12 kg bell held upside down by the horns and circled close around the head: past the right ear, behind the head, past the left ear and back in front of the chin. Then the other way.

1°Ankle dorsiflexion
2°Knee flexion
4°Hip flexion
1°Trunk from vertical
64°Arm to trunk
122°Elbow flexion
30Ankle spacing, cm
12Hand spacing, cm
-3Knee outside ankle, cm
–Knee cave, ° inside toe line
50 / 50Load left / right, %
0Pelvis drop, cm

Load and joint demand

Load in the model: 12 kg. Balance and joint demand re-solve as you change it.

Lower back
53 / 53
Hip extensors
27 / 27
Knee flexors
27 / 27
Calves
33 / 33
Shoulder, per side
26 / 32
Elbow, per side
15 / 23

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

Shoulders
100 pts
Triceps
82 pts
Upper back
64 pts
Abs and core
23 pts

Effort and your quota

3.5/10 effort3.7fatigue per set

Your quota per set: 10 reps at 12 kg, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

One hard set earns 182 push points, 64 pull points, 82 arms points, 23 core points.

Prime movers

Deltoids, triceps, upper trapezius, abdominals (holding), rotator cuff.

What to look for

  • Keep the bell close to the head.
  • Ribs down; the trunk stays still.
  • Change direction every rep.
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.