Mobility · Upper legs

Standing quad stretch

Target Quadriceps  ·  Equipment Body weight  ·  Level Beginner  ·  Reps 2

Standing quad stretch is a beginner-level mobility 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. Catch the foot3s · ease-in-out Bend the right knee back and reach the hand for the ankle
2. Release2s · ease-out Release the foot and return to standing

The .posecode source

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

posecode stretch "Standing quad stretch"
  rig humanoid
  pose start = standing

  step "Catch the foot" 3s ease-in-out:
    knee_right: flex 144
    hip_right: extend 20
    reach: hand_right ankle_right
    cue "Bend the right knee back and reach the hand for the ankle"

  step "Release" 2s ease-out:
    knee_right: flex 0
    hip_right: extend 0
    cue "Release the foot and return to standing"

  repeat 2

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