This strengthening exercise is designed to enhance awareness and control of the muscles that protract and retract the shoulder blades.
Instructions
- With bent elbows, place the forearm onto the wall slightly below the line of the shoulder joint
- With a relaxed neck squeeze the shoulder blades together
- Move in the opposing direction and round through the chest pulling the shoulder blades apart
- Repeat
Precautions
- Excessive hip movement forwards/backwards
- Arching through the lower back
- Neck extension