Descent, eccentricBalanced over midfoot, bar 1.9 cm ahead
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Pause front squat

A front squat with 80 kg in the front rack and a two-second dead stop at the bottom. Same stance, depth and balance solve as the front squat; the pause takes away the bounce.

2°Ankle dorsiflexion
2°Knee flexion
11°Hip flexion
5°Trunk from vertical
88°Arm to trunk
164°Elbow flexion
40Ankle spacing, cm
56Hand spacing, cm
-6Knee outside ankle, cm
–Knee cave, ° inside toe line
50 / 50Load left / right, %
0Pelvis drop, cm

Load and joint demand

Load in the model: 80 kg. Balance and joint demand re-solve as you change it.

Lower back
29 / 339
Hip extensors
10 / 194
Knee extensors
27 / 123
Calves
55 / 55

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
Abs and core
46 pts
Upper back
32 pts

Effort and your quota

8/10 effort8.3fatigue per set

Your quota per set: 10 reps at 80 kg, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

One hard set earns 182 legs points, 32 pull points, 46 core points.

Prime movers

Quadriceps, gluteus maximus, upper back (holding the rack), abdominals.

What to look for

  • Hold the bottom for two seconds without relaxing.
  • Keep the elbows high through the pause.
  • Trunk stays much more upright than a back squat for the same depth.
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.