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Corpse Pose Alignment Check

Is your corpse pose actually aligned? Prop your phone up and find out — GoodReps watches your hip angle (shoulder → hip → knee) live and times the hold only while your form is right, as you work your core. Free, in your browser, processed entirely on your device.

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The live screen, in miniature — the skeleton is the app’s real corpse pose pose (side view), with the alignment bar and hold timer exactly as they run in a session. All processed on-device.
Straight From The App

HOW TO HOLD A PROPER CORPSE POSE

Setup  Lie flat on your back, side-on to the camera, arms relaxed at your sides.

  1. Let your feet fall open and your palms turn up.
  2. Release every muscle — jaw, shoulders, hands.
  3. Stay still and breathe; the camera keeps the time.
Form cue: Completely relax — the timer does the work

This is the same instruction sheet you’ll find on the ⓘ panel inside the app — with an animated demo next to it.

How The Check Works

THREE STEPS TO A SCORED HOLD

1

Prop your phone and get in frame

Set your phone at roughly torso height and set up side-on to the camera. The built-in camera test confirms your lighting, distance, and angle with live green checks before you start.

2

The AI locks a 17-point skeleton on you

GoodReps measures your hip angle (shoulder → hip → knee) against the pose target (~172°), entirely on your device. No wearables, no mirrors needed. A mat and a few undisturbed minutes.

3

Settle in — the timer only counts real alignment

The hold timer runs while you’re actually in the pose. Drift out of alignment and it pauses (it doesn’t reset) until you find the shape again.

Under The Hood

WHAT THE CAMERA WATCHES

Fix These First

COMMON CORPSE POSE MISTAKES

Skipping it entirely

The most common corpse pose mistake is not doing it. Two flat, quiet minutes after training is where your nervous system banks the work.

Lying down but staying on duty

Clenched fists, held breath, planning dinner. Do one slow scan — jaw, shoulders, hands, legs — and let each one actually drop.

Fidgeting through it

Every adjustment restarts the settling. Get comfortable once — legs apart, palms up — then let the floor do the rest.

Napping instead of resting

Fair risk. If you keep drifting off, try it earlier in the session or keep the eyes softly open.

Your Data

PRIVATE BY DESIGN

Rep counting runs entirely on your device — your camera feed is never uploaded.

Pose detection runs in your browser via TensorFlow.js. Camera frames are analyzed in real time and immediately discarded — nothing is recorded, nothing leaves your phone, and we never see them. Sign-in is optional; skip it and everything stays local.

FAQ

QUESTIONS, ANSWERED

Is corpse pose really an exercise?

It's a recovery practice — deliberate, timed stillness that downshifts your heart rate and breath after work. GoodReps times it like any hold, which is exactly the nudge most of us need to actually do it.

Does it work in a home gym or low light?

Run the built-in camera test first — it checks your lighting, distance, and angle with live green checks before you start.

Is my camera feed uploaded anywhere?

No. Pose detection runs entirely on your phone, in your browser. Frames are analyzed in real time and immediately discarded — nothing is recorded, nothing is uploaded.

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