Press, concentric
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Seated dumbbell press

Upright bench with back support, 22 kg dumbbells from shoulder height to overhead. Elbows start out to the sides and hands converge slightly at the top.

-9°Ankle dorsiflexion
77°Knee flexion
77°Hip flexion
8°Trunk from vertical
34°Arm to trunk
148°Elbow flexion
40Ankle spacing, cm
72Hand spacing, cm
4Knee outside ankle, cm
–Knee cave, ° inside toe line
–Load left / right, %
0Pelvis drop, cm

Load and joint demand

Load in the model: 22 kg each hand. Balance and joint demand re-solve as you change it.

Shoulder, per side
42 / 42
Elbow, per side
3 / 52

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

Shoulders
100 pts
Triceps
82 pts
Upper back
64 pts

Effort and your quota

3/10 effort3.1fatigue per set

Your quota per set: 10 reps at 22 kg each hand, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

One hard set earns 182 push points, 64 pull points, 82 arms points.

Prime movers

Anterior and lateral deltoid, triceps, upper trapezius.

What to look for

  • Forearms stay vertical from the front at the bottom.
  • Hands finish over the shoulders, a little narrower than they started.
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.