Physiotherapy · Lower legs

Heel raises

Target Calves  ·  Equipment Body weight  ·  Level Beginner  ·  Reps 12

Heel raises is a beginner-level physiotherapy movement targeting the calves, 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. Rise1.3s · ease-out Press through the balls of the feet and lift the heels
2. Lower1.5s · ease-in Lower the heels under control

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 "Heel raises"
  rig humanoid
  pose start = standing

  step "Rise" 1.3s ease-out:
    ankles: plantarflex 35
    ground-lock: feet
    cue "Press through the balls of the feet and lift the heels"

  step "Lower" 1.5s ease-in:
    ankles: plantarflex 0
    ground-lock: feet
    cue "Lower the heels under control"

  repeat 12

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