Fitness · Shoulders

Lateral raise

Target Deltoids  ·  Equipment Body weight  ·  Level Beginner  ·  Reps 8

Lateral raise is a beginner-level fitness movement targeting the deltoids, 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. Raise1.4s · ease-out Lift out to shoulder height, soft elbows
2. Lower1.6s · ease-in Lower slowly, resist on the way 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 exercise "Lateral raise"
  rig humanoid
  pose start = standing

  step "Raise" 1.4s ease-out:
    shoulders: abduct 90
    elbows: flex 10
    cue "Lift out to shoulder height, soft elbows"

  step "Lower" 1.6s ease-in:
    shoulders: abduct 0
    elbows: flex 0
    cue "Lower slowly, resist on the way down"

  repeat 8

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