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Low-incline dumbbell press

Bench at 20°, 26 kg dumbbells. Hands travel from beside the chest to straight above the shoulders; the low angle sits between a flat and an incline press.

-13°Ankle dorsiflexion
78°Knee flexion
33°Hip flexion
70°Trunk from vertical
105°Arm to trunk
16°Elbow flexion
48Ankle spacing, cm
40Hand spacing, cm
4Knee outside ankle, cm
–Knee cave, ° inside toe line
–Load left / right, %
0Pelvis drop, cm

Load and joint demand

Load in the model: 26 kg each hand. Balance and joint demand re-solve as you change it.

Shoulder, per side
4 / 45
Elbow, per side
11 / 61

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

Chest
100 pts
Shoulders
82 pts
Triceps
64 pts

Effort and your quota

4/10 effort4.2fatigue per set

Your quota per set: 10 reps at 26 kg each hand, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

One hard set earns 246 push points, 64 arms points.

Prime movers

Clavicular (upper) pectoralis major, anterior deltoid, triceps.

What to look for

  • Set the bench one or two notches up, about 20°.
  • The incline shifts work toward the upper chest and front delts.
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.