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Desk posture reset

Target Spinal erectors  ·  Equipment Body weight  ·  Level Beginner  ·  Reps 4

Desk posture reset is a beginner-level desk & posture movement targeting the spinal erectors, 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.

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How to do it

  1. Slouch2.5s · ease-in-out The collapsed desk posture: rounded back, head drifting forward
  2. Stack tall2.5s · ease-in-out Stack head over ribs over hips, chest open, shoulders soft

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 "Desk posture reset"
  rig humanoid
  pose start = standing

  step "Slouch" 2.5s ease-in-out:
    spine: flex 22
    chest: flex 16
    neck: flex 28
    shoulders: flex 22
    ground-lock: feet
    cue "The collapsed desk posture: rounded back, head drifting forward"

  step "Stack tall" 2.5s ease-in-out:
    spine: flex 0
    chest: extend 8
    neck: flex 0
    shoulders: flex 0
    ground-lock: feet
    cue "Stack head over ribs over hips, chest open, shoulders soft"

  repeat 4

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