Pull to the chestCentre of mass inside base of support
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Sumo deadlift high pull

A 40 kg bar from the floor with a wide sumo stance and a close grip, pulled in one movement past the hips and up to the chest with the elbows high. A conditioning staple.

-7°Ankle dorsiflexion
48°Knee flexion
115°Hip flexion
74°Trunk from vertical
73°Arm to trunk
0°Elbow flexion
76Ankle spacing, cm
36Hand spacing, cm
-5Knee outside ankle, cm
0°Knee cave, ° inside toe line
50 / 50Load left / right, %
0Pelvis drop, cm

Load and joint demand

Load in the model: 40 kg. Balance and joint demand re-solve as you change it.

Lower back
300 / 300
Hip extensors
183 / 183
Knee flexors
48 / 49
Calves
33 / 33
Shoulder, per side
5 / 23
Elbow, per side
2 / 54

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

Glutes
100 pts
Adductors
82 pts
Quads
64 pts
Upper back
46 pts
Shoulders
35 pts
Hamstrings
35 pts

Effort and your quota

8.5/10 effort8.9fatigue per set

Your quota per set: 10 reps at 40 kg, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

One hard set earns 281 legs points, 35 push points, 46 pull points.

Prime movers

Gluteus maximus, adductors, quadriceps, trapezius, deltoids, hamstrings.

What to look for

  • Hips drive first, then the arms pull.
  • Elbows high and out at the top.
  • Bar stays close; lower under control.
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.