Desk & posture · Neck

Neck side stretch

Target Neck  ·  Equipment Body weight  ·  Level Beginner  ·  Reps 3

Neck side stretch is a beginner-level desk & posture movement targeting the neck, 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. Ear to right3s · ease-in-out Gently take the right ear toward the right shoulder
  2. Ear to left3.4s · ease-in-out Pass through center and lengthen to the left
  3. Center2s · ease-out Float the head back to neutral

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 "Neck side stretch"
  rig humanoid
  pose start = standing

  step "Ear to right" 3s ease-in-out:
    neck: adduct 40
    ground-lock: feet
    cue "Gently take the right ear toward the right shoulder"

  step "Ear to left" 3.4s ease-in-out:
    neck: abduct 40
    ground-lock: feet
    cue "Pass through center and lengthen to the left"

  step "Center" 2s ease-out:
    neck: abduct 0
    ground-lock: feet
    cue "Float the head back to neutral"

  repeat 3

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