Lower, eccentricBalanced over midfoot
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Overhead triceps extension

One 20 kg dumbbell held in both hands behind the head. Upper arms point nearly straight up and the elbows flex from 15° to 140°.

3°Ankle dorsiflexion
2°Knee flexion
3°Hip flexion
3°Trunk from vertical
166°Arm to trunk
15°Elbow flexion
26Ankle spacing, cm
22Hand spacing, cm
-2Knee 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
33 / 33
Hip extensors
18 / 18
Knee flexors
23 / 23
Calves
36 / 36
Shoulder, per side
25 / 27
Elbow, per side
9 / 41

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

Effort and your quota

1.5/10 effort1.6fatigue per set

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

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

Prime movers

Triceps brachii, long head emphasised by the overhead position.

What to look for

  • Elbows point forward and up, not flared wide.
  • A deep stretch at the bottom is the point of the exercise.
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.