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Backward sled drag

Facing a loaded sled, holding a strap handle in each hand with the arms long, sitting back into a half squat and walking backward with short steps, pushing through the front of the foot. Shown on the spot with the straps running to the sled.

24°Ankle dorsiflexion
62°Knee flexion
32°Hip flexion
6°Trunk from vertical
18°Arm to trunk
59°Elbow flexion
24Ankle spacing, cm
40Hand spacing, cm
0Knee outside ankle, cm
–Knee cave, ° inside toe line
–Load left / right, %
0Pelvis drop, cm

Load and joint demand

Bodyweight exercise: the load slider has no effect here; body mass comes from your limits.

No gravity-based joint demand to show for this exercise.

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

Quads
100 pts
Calves and shins
82 pts
Glutes
64 pts
Upper back
23 pts
Forearms and grip
23 pts

Effort and your quota

6.5/10 effort6.5fatigue per set

Your quota per set: 45 s hard, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

One hard set earns 221 legs points, 23 pull points, 12 arms points.

Prime movers

Quadriceps, calves, gluteus maximus, upper back and forearms (holding).

What to look for

  • Sit back and lean away from the sled; arms long.
  • Short, quick steps, pushing through the balls of the feet.
  • Keep the chest up and the straps tight.
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.