Dip and driveBalanced over midfoot
Side view
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Kettlebell push press

One 20 kg bell in the right-hand rack: a short knee dip and drive starts it moving, and the arm finishes the press to lockout.

1°Ankle dorsiflexion
2°Knee flexion
8°Hip flexion
2°Trunk from vertical
26°Arm to trunk
146°Elbow flexion
34Ankle spacing, cm
43Hand spacing, cm
-6Knee outside ankle, cm
–Knee cave, ° inside toe line
50 / 50Load left / right, %
-1Pelvis drop, cm

Load and joint demand

Load in the model: 20 kg. Balance and joint demand re-solve as you change it.

Lower back
46 / 46
Hip extensors
24 / 24
Knee flexors
27 / 27
Calves
36 / 36

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
Quads
64 pts
Glutes
46 pts
Abs and core
35 pts

Effort and your quota

6/10 effort6.3fatigue per set

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

One hard set earns 110 legs points, 182 push points, 82 arms points, 35 core points.

Prime movers

Deltoids, triceps, quadriceps, gluteus maximus, obliques.

What to look for

  • Dip straight down, chest tall.
  • Drive with the legs, then press.
  • Catch it back in the rack with soft knees.
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.