Push downBalanced over midfoot
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Triceps pushdown

Rope attachment on a high pulley, trunk leaning 10° forward. Upper arms stay at the sides while the elbows extend from 95° to straight. Cable force is not modelled.

1°Ankle dorsiflexion
2°Knee flexion
12°Hip flexion
11°Trunk from vertical
11°Arm to trunk
95°Elbow flexion
32Ankle spacing, cm
42Hand spacing, cm
-4Knee outside ankle, cm
–Knee cave, ° inside toe line
50 / 50Load left / right, %
0Pelvis drop, cm

Load and joint demand

Machine or cable load (25 kg at this setting) is not modelled, so joint demand shows the body only.

Lower back
137 / 137
Hip extensors
74 / 74
Knee flexors
75 / 75
Calves
83 / 83
Shoulder, per side
43 / 43
Elbow, per side
44 / 44

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

Triceps
100 pts

Effort and your quota

1.5/10 effort1.6fatigue per set

Your quota per set: 10 reps at 25 kg, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

One hard set earns 100 push points, 100 arms points.

Prime movers

Triceps brachii, lateral and medial heads.

What to look for

  • Elbows stay pinned to the sides.
  • Split the rope at the bottom for full extension.
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.