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In Olympic weightlifting, proportions aren't just helpful context — they're the foundation of technique. Your starting position, your pull trajectory, your catch depth: all of it is shaped by your femur length, torso height, and arm span. STATURE calculates the biomechanics of your specific build so you can understand why your technique looks the way it does — and how to make it work better.
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The classic Burgener warm-up and standard Chinese-style pull work beautifully for certain proportions. For others, they create constant hip and back strain that no amount of coaching cues resolves. The problem isn't the lifter — it's that the technique was designed for a different body. STATURE makes your proportions visible so you and your coach can build technique that actually fits your levers, not technique borrowed from someone else's anatomy.
See how your femur length, torso height, and arm span interact to shape your starting position and pull trajectory. Understand why your floor position looks different from the textbook — and whether it should.
Foot width, toe angle, and squat depth at the catch all respond to body proportions. Get ranked stance recommendations for your specific build across squat, deadlift, and front squat mechanics.
Map your body across all six major movements. Identify which proportional traits work in your favor for Olympic lifting — and where your build creates challenges that technique alone can't fully solve.
Compare the mechanical demand of your lifts to average proportions. Understand whether your body is working harder or easier than typical at the same absolute load — valuable context for programming.
STATURE currently models squat, deadlift, bench, OHP, pull-up, and push-up. The squat and deadlift analyses are directly relevant to Olympic lifting — the starting position, pull, and squat catch all follow the same biomechanical principles. Full snatch and clean-and-jerk modeling is planned for a future update.
Longer femurs require greater forward torso lean to maintain balance in the pull, which affects bar trajectory. In the receiving position, longer femurs demand more ankle dorsiflexion to maintain an upright torso. STATURE calculates how your femur length changes joint angles and moment arms throughout the movement.
Often, yes. When a technique that looks 'wrong' feels natural, it's frequently because the lifter's proportions require a different path than the textbook shows. STATURE can help visualize why your natural position makes sense for your body — giving you and your coach a shared reference point.
You can compare yourself to any set of proportions you input. While STATURE doesn't have a database of elite lifter measurements, you can manually enter approximate measurements for known athletes based on their published height and weight data.
Torso length relative to leg length affects where your center of mass sits in the overhead squat and snatch receiving position. Longer torsos generally allow a more upright receiving position. STATURE calculates your torso-to-leg ratio and shows how it interacts with the overhead and squat mechanics.
The core tool is free. STATURE Pro ($49 lifetime) unlocks full build profiles, training logs, custom segment inputs for measured proportions, and saved athlete comparisons. No subscription.
Pull position analysis, stance optimization, and proportion-based technique principles.
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