Press, concentric
Side view
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Seated overhead press

Sitting upright on a bench, 40 kg pressed from the front of the shoulders to lockout over the head. The bench takes the legs out of it, so there is no leg drive and little lean.

-11°Ankle dorsiflexion
74°Knee flexion
84°Hip flexion
0°Trunk from vertical
48°Arm to trunk
153°Elbow flexion
40Ankle spacing, cm
50Hand 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: 40 kg. Balance and joint demand re-solve as you change it.

Shoulder, per side
30 / 31
Elbow, per side
25 / 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 40 kg, 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 brachii, upper trapezius.

What to look for

  • Sit tall; don't lean back against nothing.
  • Head back to clear the chin, then through.
  • Lock out over the back of the neck.
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.