Pull and catchCentre of mass inside base of support
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Power clean

A 70 kg bar pulled from the floor, driven up by a jump through the hips, knees and ankles, and caught on the front of the shoulders in a quarter squat, then stood up. The first pull uses the deadlift solver; from mid-thigh the legs, heel raise and bar are keyframed and the trunk lean is solved for balance every frame.

11°Ankle dorsiflexion
73°Knee flexion
130°Hip flexion
69°Trunk from vertical
67°Arm to trunk
0°Elbow flexion
30Ankle spacing, cm
56Hand spacing, cm
2Knee outside ankle, cm
0°Knee cave, ° inside toe line
50 / 50Load left / right, %
0Pelvis drop, cm

Load and joint demand

Load in the model: 70 kg. Balance and joint demand re-solve as you change it.

Lower back
402 / 402
Hip extensors
241 / 241
Knee extensors
5 / 57
Calves
53 / 53
Shoulder, per side
34 / 50
Elbow, per side
17 / 88

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

Glutes
100 pts
Quads
82 pts
Hamstrings
64 pts
Upper back
46 pts
Calves and shins
35 pts

Effort and your quota

9.5/10 effort9.9fatigue per set

Your quota per set: 10 reps at 70 kg, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

One hard set earns 271 legs points, 46 pull points.

Prime movers

Gluteus maximus, quadriceps, hamstrings, trapezius, calves, upper back.

What to look for

  • Push the floor away; the bar stays close to the legs.
  • Jump straight up, then pull yourself under the bar.
  • Fast elbows round into the rack; land with flat feet.
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.