StepCentre of mass inside base of support
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Kettlebell overhead carry

One 16 kg bell locked out overhead in the right hand, resting on the back of the forearm, marching on the spot.

5°Ankle dorsiflexion
2°Knee flexion
3°Hip flexion
4°Trunk from vertical
171°Arm to trunk
20°Elbow flexion
20Ankle spacing, cm
77Hand spacing, cm
-2Knee outside ankle, cm
–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
12 / 12
Knee extensors
18 / 59
Calves
35 / 69

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
60 pts
Triceps
49 pts
Upper back
38 pts
Abs and core
21 pts

Effort and your quota

4/10 effort4fatigue per set

Your quota per set: carry 16 kg each hand for 42 s, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

One hard set earns 109 push points, 38 pull points, 49 arms points, 21 core points.

Prime movers

Deltoids, triceps, upper trapezius, rotator cuff, obliques.

What to look for

  • Biceps by the ear, wrist straight.
  • Ribs down; do not arch.
  • Go lighter than you think.
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.