This exercise is called posterolateral extension.
This is a good one to combat common forward
posture now, you drive a car, you sit at a
desk, you pick up the kids, everything is
this way, and that tends to put a lot of stress
on your neck and shoulders This gets some
opposite muscle contraction, and is really
nice and easy to add into anybody, even if
you have problems in this area, it's nice
and safe and it will actually get some good
strength through there
We are going to start with our hands out in
front, I want you to look at your thumb.
It's really important to track with your eyes,
that's why you normally turn your head anyway,
and then we are going to extend to the side
and back behind, almost like you are trying
to catch a ball over your shoulder and you
can go as far as you can while you can still
see your thumb Then we are going to come back
to the center and we would repeat that on
both sides and I would start with five reps
and I would try and do that throughout the
day So from the side, we are really looking
at the same thing, we want a nice posture
to start, a nice strong core contraction and
then as we extend back, we want to follow
that hand, bring your neck back as far as
you can while you can still see your thumb
this will really work opposite of that chronic
forward posture stuff.
It will get that to open up and move much
better
