Held positions

Being told to hold a posture, often on a clock, without necessarily being tied.

Why people do it

A held posture is obedience you can see, and it costs nothing. It is also the only kind of difficulty that scales purely with time, which makes it the fairest thing to give somebody as a task.

Smallest way in

Pick one posture, name it, and ask for two minutes of it. Then use the same word next time — a vocabulary of three postures does more than a drawer of gear.

What to watch

Knees want a cushion after a few minutes, and anything held overhead ends sooner than you expect. Watch for shaking that changes character — trembling is fine, wobbling is a warning.

In the planner

84 different things carry this tag, and switching it off removes every one of them. The mildest of them sits at easy.