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Single-arm dumbbell floor press

Lying on the floor with the knees bent, one 22 kg dumbbell pressed by the right arm while the left arm rests on the floor. The upper arm stops on the floor at the bottom; the trunk resists the twist.

-30°Ankle dorsiflexion
110°Knee flexion
50°Hip flexion
90°Trunk from vertical
88°Arm to trunk
16°Elbow flexion
24Ankle spacing, cm
47Hand spacing, cm
2Knee outside ankle, cm
–Knee cave, ° inside toe line
–Load left / right, %
0Pelvis drop, cm

Load and joint demand

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

Shoulder, per side
12 / 42
Elbow, per side
9 / 47

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

Chest
100 pts
Triceps
82 pts
Shoulders
64 pts
Abs and core
46 pts

Effort and your quota

4/10 effort4.2fatigue per set

Your quota per set: 10 reps at 22.5 kg, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

One hard set earns 246 push points, 82 arms points, 46 core points.

Prime movers

Pectoralis major, triceps, anterior deltoid, obliques.

What to look for

  • Keep both shoulders on the floor; do not roll toward the dumbbell.
  • Pause with the upper arm on the floor.
  • Press until the dumbbell is over the shoulder.
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.