Pull, concentricBalanced over midfoot, bar 5.5 cm ahead
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Tempo deadlift

A conventional deadlift with 140 kg lowered over four seconds instead of dropped, keeping the bar close and the back flat all the way to the floor. Same set-up and balance solve as the deadlift.

7°Ankle dorsiflexion
66°Knee flexion
130°Hip flexion
71°Trunk from vertical
69°Arm to trunk
0°Elbow flexion
26Ankle spacing, cm
50Hand spacing, cm
2Knee outside ankle, cm
0°Knee cave, ° inside toe line
50 / 50Load left / right, %
0Pelvis drop, cm

Load and joint demand

Load in the model: 140 kg. Balance and joint demand re-solve as you change it.

Lower back
674 / 674
Hip extensors
398 / 398
Knee flexors
28 / 80
Calves
79 / 79
Shoulder, per side
49 / 49
Elbow, per side
24 / 24

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
Hamstrings
82 pts
Adductors
64 pts
Quads
46 pts
Lower back
35 pts
Lats
35 pts

Effort and your quota

10/10 effort10.4fatigue per set

Your quota per set: 10 reps at 140 kg, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

One hard set earns 292 legs points, 35 pull points, 35 core points.

Prime movers

Gluteus maximus, hamstrings, adductor magnus, quadriceps off the floor, spinal erectors, lats.

What to look for

  • Lower over four seconds, bar touching the legs.
  • Hips back first, then the knees bend once the bar passes them.
  • Bar starts close to the shins, over the front half of the foot.
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.