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Single-leg dumbbell glute bridge

Shoulders on the floor, right foot planted, left leg held straight in line with the thigh, a 12 kg dumbbell across the hips. The hips rise until shoulder, hip and knee line up.

-19°Ankle dorsiflexion
134°Knee flexion
62°Hip flexion
92°Trunk from vertical
38°Arm to trunk
61°Elbow flexion
1Ankle spacing, cm
34Hand spacing, cm
6Knee outside ankle, cm
–Knee cave, ° inside toe line
–Load left / right, %
0Pelvis drop, cm

Load and joint demand

Load in the model: 12 kg. Balance and joint demand re-solve as you change it.

Shoulder, per side
39 / 39
Elbow, per side
21 / 21

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

Hamstrings
100 pts
Glutes
100 pts

Effort and your quota

5.5/10 effort5.7fatigue per set

Your quota per set: 10 reps at 12 kg, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

One hard set earns 200 legs points.

Prime movers

Gluteus maximus and hamstrings of the working leg, gluteus medius.

What to look for

  • Keep the pelvis level; do not let the free side drop.
  • Drive through the heel of the planted foot.
  • Squeeze at the top for a second.
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.