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Nordic hamstring curl

Kneeling with the ankles anchored. Thigh and trunk lower forward as one straight line pivoting at the knee, from upright to about 70°. The anchor carries the load, so no balance check.

-54°Ankle dorsiflexion
92°Knee flexion
5°Hip flexion
2°Trunk from vertical
31°Arm to trunk
70°Elbow flexion
24Ankle spacing, cm
53Hand spacing, cm
0Knee outside ankle, cm
–Knee cave, ° inside toe line
–Load left / right, %
0Pelvis drop, cm

Load and joint demand

Bodyweight exercise: the load slider has no effect here; body mass comes from your limits.

No gravity-based joint demand to show for this exercise.

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

Hamstrings
100 pts

Effort and your quota

2.5/10 effort2.5fatigue per set

Your quota per set: 3 reps at bodyweight, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

One hard set earns 100 legs points.

Prime movers

Hamstrings (eccentric emphasis).

What to look for

  • Hips stay extended; no bending at the waist to cheat.
  • Lower as slowly as possible, catch with the hands.
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.