ElevateBalanced over midfoot, bar 4.3 cm ahead
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Shrug

60 kg bar held at arms length. Only the shoulder girdle moves: shoulder joints rise about 6 cm along the trunk line with straight arms.

2°Ankle dorsiflexion
2°Knee flexion
4°Hip flexion
2°Trunk from vertical
10°Arm to trunk
0°Elbow flexion
28Ankle spacing, cm
52Hand spacing, cm
-3Knee outside ankle, cm
–Knee cave, ° inside toe line
50 / 50Load left / right, %
0Pelvis drop, cm

Load and joint demand

Load in the model: 60 kg. Balance and joint demand re-solve as you change it.

Lower back
59 / 59
Hip extensors
31 / 31
Knee flexors
36 / 36
Calves
50 / 50
Shoulder, per side
31 / 31
Elbow, per side
15 / 15

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

Upper back
100 pts

Effort and your quota

2.5/10 effort2.6fatigue per set

Your quota per set: 10 reps at 60 kg, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

One hard set earns 100 pull points.

Prime movers

Upper trapezius, levator scapulae.

What to look for

  • Straight up and down; rolling the shoulders adds nothing.
  • Arms stay straight; bending the elbows turns it into a row.
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.