Descent, eccentricBalanced over midfoot, bar 0.4 cm behind
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Overhead squat

40 kg locked out overhead with a wide snatch grip. The bar has to stay over midfoot, so the balance solve forces an upright trunk and big shoulder flexion.

-1°Ankle dorsiflexion
2°Knee flexion
13°Hip flexion
4°Trunk from vertical
136°Arm to trunk
7°Elbow flexion
54Ankle spacing, cm
124Hand spacing, cm
-9Knee outside ankle, cm
–Knee cave, ° inside toe line
50 / 50Load left / right, %
0Pelvis drop, cm

Load and joint demand

Load in the model: 40 kg. Balance and joint demand re-solve as you change it.

Lower back
9 / 227
Hip extensors
7 / 139
Knee extensors
18 / 85
Calves
39 / 39

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
Shoulders
64 pts
Upper back
46 pts
Abs and core
35 pts

Effort and your quota

7.5/10 effort7.8fatigue per set

Your quota per set: 10 reps at 40 kg, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

One hard set earns 182 legs points, 64 push points, 46 pull points, 35 core points.

Prime movers

Quadriceps, gluteus maximus, deltoids, trapezius, core.

What to look for

  • Bar stays over midfoot the whole way.
  • Needs ankle, hip and shoulder mobility; the angle readouts show how much.
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.