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Medicine ball chest pass

A 4 kg medicine ball held at the chest, elbows out, pushed explosively straight ahead to a wall or a partner by extending both arms, the ball leaving the hands at full stretch; then caught and brought back to the chest.

8°Ankle dorsiflexion
12°Knee flexion
8°Hip flexion
3°Trunk from vertical
31°Arm to trunk
132°Elbow flexion
32Ankle spacing, cm
22Hand spacing, cm
-3Knee outside ankle, cm
–Knee cave, ° inside toe line
50 / 50Load left / right, %
0Pelvis drop, cm

Load and joint demand

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

Lower back
25 / 48
Hip extensors
13 / 24
Knee flexors
5 / 11
Calves
30 / 30
Shoulder, per side
14 / 34
Elbow, per side
14 / 16

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

Chest
100 pts
Triceps
82 pts
Shoulders
64 pts
Abs and core
46 pts

Effort and your quota

4/10 effort4fatigue per set

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

One hard set earns 246 push points, 82 arms points, 46 core points.

Prime movers

Pectoralis major, triceps, anterior deltoid, abdominals.

What to look for

  • Ball at the chest, elbows out, soft knees.
  • Push it straight out and snap the arms long.
  • Catch with soft hands and bring it back to the chest.
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.