Descent, eccentricBalanced over midfoot
Side view
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Landmine squat

The free end of a bar anchored 1.9 m ahead is held at the chest. The bar’s angle lets the lifter lean into it; about 20 kg is felt at the hands.

2°Ankle dorsiflexion
2°Knee flexion
15°Hip flexion
9°Trunk from vertical
35°Arm to trunk
130°Elbow flexion
44Ankle spacing, cm
10Hand spacing, cm
-7Knee 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
23 / 183
Hip extensors
7 / 111
Knee extensors
17 / 75
Calves
34 / 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

Quads
100 pts
Glutes
82 pts
Adductors
64 pts

Effort and your quota

7/10 effort7.3fatigue per set

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

One hard set earns 246 legs points.

Prime movers

Quadriceps, gluteus maximus, adductors.

What to look for

  • Lean slightly into the bar; the arc guides you.
  • Good for learning a squat with support.
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.