RaiseBalanced over midfoot
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Single-arm lateral raise

One 10 kg dumbbell in the right hand raised out to the side to just below shoulder height, the free hand holding a support. One side at a time lets you focus on the shoulder without the trunk helping.

3°Ankle dorsiflexion
2°Knee flexion
5°Hip flexion
2°Trunk from vertical
13°Arm to trunk
15°Elbow flexion
26Ankle spacing, cm
76Hand spacing, cm
-4Knee outside ankle, cm
–Knee cave, ° inside toe line
50 / 50Load left / right, %
0Pelvis drop, cm

Load and joint demand

Load in the model: 10 kg. Balance and joint demand re-solve as you change it.

Lower back
33 / 33
Hip extensors
18 / 18
Knee flexors
22 / 22
Calves
32 / 32
Shoulder, per side
22 / 76
Elbow, per side
15 / 36

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
Upper back
64 pts

Effort and your quota

2.5/10 effort2.6fatigue per set

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

One hard set earns 100 push points, 64 pull points.

Prime movers

Lateral deltoid, supraspinatus, upper trapezius.

What to look for

  • Lead with the elbow; the hand stays no higher than it.
  • Do not lean away to swing the weight up.
  • Lower slowly.
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.