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 capable language models can use to describe human movement as text. Authored joint targets and reach-IK solves are constrained to Posecode's configured per-axis bounds. Those bounds constrain the visualization, but they do not certify that a complete movement is safe or clinically correct. This page documents a code example; it is not exercise instruction.

Movement phases

Phase cues are display-only coaching text. The executable joint and contact directives in the source below determine the animation.

1. Raise1.4s · settle Lift out to shoulder height, soft elbows
2. Lower1.6s · settle Lower slowly, resist on the way down

The .posecode source

This is the exact text used by the linked playground animation: phases and joint angles, not 3D transforms.

posecode exercise "Lateral raise"
  rig humanoid
  pose start = standing

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

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

  repeat 8

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