PullBalanced over midfoot
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Kettlebell upright row

Standing, one 20 kg bell held by the handle in both hands; it travels up the front of the body to lower-chest height with the elbows leading high and wide.

3°Ankle dorsiflexion
2°Knee flexion
4°Hip flexion
3°Trunk from vertical
6°Arm to trunk
24°Elbow flexion
28Ankle spacing, cm
10Hand 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: 20 kg. Balance and joint demand re-solve as you change it.

Lower back
27 / 53
Hip extensors
15 / 27
Knee flexors
22 / 28
Calves
36 / 36
Shoulder, per side
16 / 29
Elbow, per side
15 / 34

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
Upper back
82 pts
Biceps
64 pts

Effort and your quota

3.5/10 effort3.7fatigue per set

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

One hard set earns 100 push points, 120 pull points, 64 arms points.

Prime movers

Lateral deltoid, upper trapezius, biceps.

What to look for

  • Stop around lower-chest height.
  • Elbows stay above the hands.
  • Keep the bell close to the body.
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.