Hinge downBalanced over midfoot, bar 1.1 cm behind
Side view
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Wide-stance good morning

Take care: Take care: the bar is far from the hips, so the lower back works hard. Start light and skip it with a lower-back injury.

Good morning from a stance well outside the shoulders with 50 kg high on the back. Soft knees, the trunk hinges to about 72°; the wide stance adds the adductors and lets the hips sit back further.

4°Ankle dorsiflexion
10°Knee flexion
16°Hip flexion
3°Trunk from vertical
37°Arm to trunk
138°Elbow flexion
60Ankle spacing, cm
84Hand 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: 50 kg. Balance and joint demand re-solve as you change it.

Lower back
7 / 351
Hip extensors
2 / 211
Knee flexors
1 / 90
Calves
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

Hamstrings
100 pts
Glutes
82 pts
Adductors
64 pts
Lower back
46 pts

Effort and your quota

8/10 effort8.3fatigue per set

Your quota per set: 10 reps at 50 kg, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

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

Prime movers

Hamstrings, gluteus maximus, adductors, spinal erectors.

What to look for

  • Push the hips back, knees soft and out.
  • Back stays flat; stop when the hamstrings pull.
  • Use a light bar; the lever is long.
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.