Press outBalanced over midfoot
Side view
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Svend press

Two 10 kg plates squeezed together between flat palms at the chest and pressed straight forward to arm’s length.

2°Ankle dorsiflexion
2°Knee flexion
5°Hip flexion
2°Trunk from vertical
25°Arm to trunk
140°Elbow flexion
32Ankle spacing, cm
8Hand 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: 20 kg. Balance and joint demand re-solve as you change it.

Lower back
42 / 127
Hip extensors
22 / 61
Knee flexors
26 / 47
Calves
36 / 36
Shoulder, per side
43 / 134
Elbow, per side
56 / 68

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

Chest
100 pts
Shoulders
82 pts

Effort and your quota

3/10 effort3.1fatigue per set

Your quota per set: 10 reps at 20 kg, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

One hard set earns 182 push points.

Prime movers

Pectoralis major (inner), anterior deltoid.

What to look for

  • Squeeze the plates hard the whole time.
  • Press straight out, not up.
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.