Lower to the floorBalanced over midfoot
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Sandbag clean

Take care: Keep the back flat as you lift; skip it with a sore lower back.

A 30 kg sandbag on the floor in front of the feet: hinge down and grab it, then drive the hips through to roll it up the thighs into a bear hug at the chest, and stand tall. Lowered back to the floor between reps.

-4°Ankle dorsiflexion
6°Knee flexion
18°Hip flexion
3°Trunk from vertical
74°Arm to trunk
100°Elbow flexion
64Ankle spacing, cm
15Hand spacing, cm
-11Knee outside ankle, cm
–Knee cave, ° inside toe line
50 / 50Load left / right, %
0Pelvis drop, cm

Load and joint demand

Load in the model: 30 kg. Balance and joint demand re-solve as you change it.

Lower back
124 / 340
Hip extensors
64 / 197
Knee flexors
50 / 50
Calves
55 / 63
Shoulder, per side
58 / 65
Elbow, per side
46 / 46

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
Lower back
64 pts
Quads
46 pts
Upper back
35 pts
Biceps
17 pts

Effort and your quota

8/10 effort8.3fatigue per set

Your quota per set: 10 reps at 30 kg, stopping 2 reps short of failure.

One hard set earns 228 legs points, 45 pull points, 17 arms points, 64 core points.

Prime movers

Gluteus maximus, hamstrings, spinal erectors, quadriceps, upper back, biceps (holding).

What to look for

  • Flat back as you reach down to the bag.
  • Drive the hips through and pull it into the lap.
  • Hug it high on the chest and stand tall.
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.