Descent, eccentricBalanced over midfoot
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Skater squat

Single-leg squat on the right foot with the left knee lowering behind toward a pad; arms reach forward holding light 4 kg plates as a counterweight. The trunk leans more than a pistol because the free leg is behind.

6°Ankle dorsiflexion
2°Knee flexion
6°Hip flexion
0°Trunk from vertical
16°Arm to trunk
5°Elbow flexion
9Ankle spacing, cm
50Hand spacing, cm
4Knee outside ankle, cm
–Knee cave, ° inside toe line
–Load left / right, %
0Pelvis drop, cm

Load and joint demand

Bodyweight exercise: the load slider has no effect here; body mass comes from your limits.

Lower back
25 / 188
Hip extensors
13 / 110
Knee flexors
22 / 58
Calves
67 / 72
Shoulder, per side
3 / 12

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

Quads
100 pts
Glutes
100 pts

Effort and your quota

6.5/10 effort6.5fatigue per set

Your quota per set: 6 reps at bodyweight, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

One hard set earns 200 legs points.

Prime movers

Quadriceps and gluteus maximus of the standing leg, gluteus medius.

What to look for

  • The back knee touches lightly down, not a rest.
  • Forward lean is normal; the free leg sits behind the body.
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.