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Devil press

Take care: A hard, fast hinge with weights: skip it with a sore lower back, and in pregnancy and postpartum.

Two 15 kg dumbbells on the floor: hands on the handles, jump back to a plank, chest to the floor, jump the feet in, then swing both bells from the floor to locked out overhead in one movement. Lowered back to the floor to start the next.

4°Ankle dorsiflexion
2°Knee flexion
3°Hip flexion
4°Trunk from vertical
160°Arm to trunk
28°Elbow flexion
22Ankle spacing, cm
60Hand spacing, cm
-1Knee 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.

Shoulder, per side
24 / 86
Elbow, per side
17 / 48

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
Shoulders
64 pts
Quads
46 pts
Chest
35 pts
Triceps
35 pts
Abs and core
35 pts

Effort and your quota

8.5/10 effort8.5fatigue per set

Your quota per set: 8 reps at bodyweight, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

One hard set earns 228 legs points, 134 push points, 35 arms points, 35 core points.

Prime movers

Gluteus maximus, hamstrings, deltoids, quadriceps, pectoralis major, triceps, abdominals.

What to look for

  • Chest between the bells, then jump the feet in wide.
  • Flat back, then snap the hips to swing the bells up.
  • Finish tall with the arms locked overhead.
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.