Yoga · Upper legs

Chair pose

Target Quadriceps  ·  Equipment Body weight  ·  Level Intermediate  ·  Reps 4

Chair pose is a intermediate-level yoga movement targeting the quadriceps, written in Posecode, a small open-source language that LLMs like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini can write to describe human movement as text. Every joint angle below is hard-clamped to a safe range of motion.

How to do it

1. Sink3s · ease-in-out Sit the hips back and down, reach the arms overhead
2. Rise2s · ease-out Press through the feet to stand, arms float down

The .posecode source

This is the exact text an LLM writes to produce the animation above: phases and joint angles, not 3D transforms.

posecode posture "Chair pose"
  rig humanoid
  pose start = standing

  step "Sink" 3s ease-in-out:
    hips: flex 55
    knees: flex 70
    ankles: dorsiflex 12
    shoulders: flex 170
    spine: flex 10
    ground-lock: feet
    cue "Sit the hips back and down, reach the arms overhead"

  step "Rise" 2s ease-out:
    hips: flex 0
    knees: flex 0
    ankles: dorsiflex 0
    shoulders: flex 0
    spine: flex 0
    ground-lock: feet
    cue "Press through the feet to stand, arms float down"

  repeat 4

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