This back and shoulder exercise also works smaller stabilizer muscles, helping keep your shoulders strong and healthy.
HOW TO DO IT:
- Hold an exercise band overhead
- Pull hands outward to create tension in the band
- Hands should end up slightly wider than shoulder width
- Maintaining tension, slowly pull elbows down to your sides
- Hands should end around shoulder height
- Really squeeze your elbows down and back for a second
- Slowly raise hands to starting position
- Maintain tension in the band throughout the entire movement
- Repeat
NO BANDS?
- Replace band with a hand towel
- Pull towel tight
- Maintain as much tension as you can throughout the movement
MAKE IT COUNT:
- Do as many as you can
- Literally – don’t stop until you can’t safely complete another rep
MAKE IT EASIER:
- Use a lighter band
MAKE IT HARDER:
- Use a heavier band
- Do the movement with your hands further out in front of your body
MAKE IT FUN:
- Share this with a friend so you have a workout buddy!
PRACTICAL USES:
- Rock climbing & bouldering
- Scaling ladders
- Ripping phone books in half
- Washing aaallllll the windows
- Scooping your poker winnings off the table
- Wax on, wax off!
- Giving great back rubs!
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