Bend toward the bellBalanced over midfoot
Load 70% on the right
Side view
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Kettlebell side bend

Standing with a 24 kg bell hanging in the right hand; the trunk bends sideways toward the bell, then the left side pulls it back up past upright. The left hand rests on the hip.

17°Ankle dorsiflexion
24°Knee flexion
8°Hip flexion
0°Trunk from vertical
4°Arm to trunk
0°Elbow flexion
26Ankle spacing, cm
40Hand spacing, cm
-2Knee outside ankle, cm
0°Knee cave, ° inside toe line
30 / 70Load 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.

Knee extensors
23 / 23
Calves
38 / 38

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

Abs and core
100 pts
Lower back
82 pts
Forearms and grip
64 pts

Effort and your quota

3.5/10 effort3.7fatigue per set

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

One hard set earns 32 arms points, 182 core points.

Prime movers

Obliques, quadratus lumborum, grip.

What to look for

  • Bend straight sideways, not forward.
  • The bell slides down the side of the leg.
  • Pull back up with the opposite side.
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.