Press, concentricBalanced over midfoot
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Standing Arnold press

Standing with 16 kg dumbbells. Starts with the palms facing you and the elbows in front, then the elbows sweep out as the dumbbells press overhead; whole-body lean is solved as the weights move.

2°Ankle dorsiflexion
2°Knee flexion
5°Hip flexion
2°Trunk from vertical
41°Arm to trunk
157°Elbow flexion
32Ankle spacing, cm
28Hand 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: 16 kg each hand. Balance and joint demand re-solve as you change it.

Lower back
55 / 55
Hip extensors
28 / 28
Knee flexors
31 / 31
Calves
40 / 40
Shoulder, per side
25 / 25
Elbow, per side
33 / 45

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
Triceps
82 pts
Upper back
64 pts
Abs and core
46 pts

Effort and your quota

4/10 effort4.2fatigue per set

Your quota per set: 10 reps at 16 kg each hand, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

One hard set earns 182 push points, 64 pull points, 82 arms points, 46 core points.

Prime movers

Anterior and lateral deltoid, triceps, upper trapezius, abdominals.

What to look for

  • Sweep the elbows from in front to out to the sides as you press.
  • Squeeze the glutes so the lower back does not arch.
  • Finish with the dumbbells over the shoulders.
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.