HoldBalanced over midfoot
Side view
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Plate pinch hold

Two 10 kg plates pinched smooth-side-out in each hand at the sides, held for time.

4°Ankle dorsiflexion
2°Knee flexion
4°Hip flexion
3°Trunk from vertical
7°Arm to trunk
0°Elbow flexion
28Ankle spacing, cm
48Hand spacing, cm
-3Knee outside ankle, cm
–Knee cave, ° inside toe line
50 / 50Load left / right, %
0Pelvis drop, cm

Load and joint demand

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

Lower back
28 / 28
Hip extensors
16 / 16
Knee flexors
25 / 25
Calves
43 / 43
Shoulder, per side
11 / 11

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

Forearms and grip
60 pts

Effort and your quota

1/10 effort1fatigue per set

Your quota per set: hold 25 s, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

One hard set earns 30 arms points.

Prime movers

Forearm flexors, thumb muscles (grip).

What to look for

  • Pinch with the thumb and fingers, not a hook.
  • Stand tall, shoulders down.
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.