Hinge downBalanced over midfoot, bar 4.9 cm ahead
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Sumo Romanian deadlift

Romanian deadlift from a wide stance with 30° of toe-out, hands inside the knees, 70 kg. Soft knees while the trunk hinges to about 62°; shins solved so the bar stays over midfoot.

-1°Ankle dorsiflexion
14°Knee flexion
21°Hip flexion
3°Trunk from vertical
11°Arm to trunk
0°Elbow flexion
64Ankle spacing, cm
34Hand spacing, cm
-9Knee outside ankle, cm
–Knee cave, ° inside toe line
50 / 50Load left / right, %
0Pelvis drop, cm

Load and joint demand

Load in the model: 70 kg. Balance and joint demand re-solve as you change it.

Lower back
93 / 275
Hip extensors
49 / 176
Knee flexors
16 / 58
Calves
47 / 47
Shoulder, per side
34 / 63
Elbow, per side
17 / 31

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
Adductors
82 pts
Glutes
64 pts
Lower back
46 pts

Effort and your quota

7.5/10 effort7.8fatigue per set

Your quota per set: 10 reps at 70 kg, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

One hard set earns 246 legs points, 46 core points.

Prime movers

Hamstrings, adductors, gluteus maximus, spinal erectors.

What to look for

  • Push the hips straight back between the heels.
  • Knees stay out over the toes.
  • Bar slides down the inside of the thighs.
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.