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Kettlebell sumo high pull

Wide stance with the toes out, one 20 kg bell held by the handle in both hands. A sumo deadlift that finishes with the elbows pulling high and wide, the bell coming up to the chest.

8°Ankle dorsiflexion
92°Knee flexion
123°Hip flexion
50°Trunk from vertical
61°Arm to trunk
2°Elbow flexion
76Ankle spacing, cm
9Hand spacing, cm
-4Knee outside ankle, cm
0°Knee cave, ° inside toe line
50 / 50Load left / right, %
0Pelvis drop, cm

Load and joint demand

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

Lower back
206 / 206
Hip extensors
124 / 124
Knee flexors
18 / 21
Calves
30 / 30
Shoulder, per side
22 / 28
Elbow, per side
11 / 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

Glutes
100 pts
Adductors
82 pts
Quads
64 pts
Upper back
46 pts
Shoulders
35 pts
Hamstrings
35 pts

Effort and your quota

8.5/10 effort8.9fatigue per set

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

One hard set earns 281 legs points, 35 push points, 46 pull points.

Prime movers

Gluteus maximus, adductors, quadriceps, upper trapezius, lateral deltoid, hamstrings.

What to look for

  • Stand up hard first, then pull.
  • Elbows go high and wide, above the hands.
  • Lower under control back between the feet.
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.