Drive
Side view
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Indoor rowing

On a rowing machine: from the catch (shins vertical, arms long) the legs drive, then the body swings back and the arms pull the handle to the lower ribs; the recovery is the reverse. The machine is drawn as scenery: rail, seat, footplates and flywheel.

4°Ankle dorsiflexion
116°Knee flexion
146°Hip flexion
24°Trunk from vertical
46°Arm to trunk
124°Elbow flexion
24Ankle spacing, cm
28Hand spacing, cm
7Knee 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
5 / 11

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

Quads
100 pts
Glutes
82 pts
Lats
64 pts
Upper back
46 pts
Biceps
35 pts
Abs and core
35 pts

Effort and your quota

7/10 effort7fatigue per set

Your quota per set: 60 s hard, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

One hard set earns 182 legs points, 131 pull points, 35 arms points, 35 core points.

Prime movers

Quadriceps, gluteus maximus, latissimus dorsi, rhomboids, biceps, abdominals.

What to look for

  • Legs, then body, then arms; on the way back, arms, body, legs.
  • Lean back only a little past upright at the finish.
  • Handle to the lower ribs with the elbows past the body.
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.