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Neutral-grip dumbbell floor press

Lying on the floor with the knees bent, 22 kg dumbbells held with the palms facing and the elbows tucked close to the ribs. The upper arms stop on the floor, which keeps the shoulders out of the deep stretch.

-30°Ankle dorsiflexion
110°Knee flexion
50°Hip flexion
90°Trunk from vertical
81°Arm to trunk
16°Elbow flexion
24Ankle spacing, cm
28Hand spacing, cm
2Knee outside ankle, cm
–Knee cave, ° inside toe line
–Load left / right, %
0Pelvis drop, cm

Load and joint demand

Load in the model: 22 kg each hand. Balance and joint demand re-solve as you change it.

Shoulder, per side
13 / 38
Elbow, per side
12 / 50

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

Triceps
100 pts
Chest
82 pts
Shoulders
64 pts

Effort and your quota

3.5/10 effort3.7fatigue per set

Your quota per set: 10 reps at 22 kg each hand, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

One hard set earns 246 push points, 100 arms points.

Prime movers

Triceps, pectoralis major, anterior deltoid.

What to look for

  • Tuck the elbows close to the sides.
  • Pause with the upper arms on the floor.
  • Press until the dumbbells meet over the chest.
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.