Sentences with phrase «scapular movement»

If you are an athlete, rhomboid contraction and scapular movement (retraction / protraction) is more useful for strength and power development.

An example of this would be a back - hand in tennis, to optimize the movement there should be shoulder and scapular movement.

It may help to try releasing the overactive muscles (i.e. myofascial release with a lacrosse ball or other tool) while re-training proper scapular movement patterns and activating / strengthening the lower traps and serratus with drill such as wall slides, forearm wall slides, scap push ups, to name a few.

The Lying External Shoulder Rotation promotes scapular movement and stability and reduces the risk of shoulder injuries.

Improving scapular movement and increasing trap strength are the two most important reasons why we recommend face pulls to anyone who's looking to grow bigger and healthier traps.

Not exact matches

The movement involves scapular retraction and depression, along with spinal extension and compression.

Bent - over rows are one of the single most effective exercises for crushing your entire upper back, yet most lifters fail to use them correctly, usually because of lack of scapular depression throughout the movement.

Functional Injury Prevention Exercise: Ring Scapular Retraction (not filmed)- A series of body weight rowing motions (low row, horizontal row, & horizontal row with external rotation) which all emphasize retraction of the scapula with a tight one second hold for each rep. Typically, I have the athletes do 10 reps of each movement.

The motion of the scapula and upper arm is defined as a 2:1 movement ratio, meaning for every 2 degrees of upward humeral motion there is 1 degree of upward scapular motion.

In particular scapular stabilization (shoulder blade) is important for producing the normal movement patterns required in the shoulder joint to return to full fitness and prevent future injury.

Weak trap, spinal extensions, scapular stabilizers, and more will result in excessive leaning of the torso in overhead movements and potentially heavier weights crashing down onto a lifter in the snatch.

The traps, scapular stabilizers, rhomboids, and shoulders all play a critical role in the receiving stages of the snatch (as well as throughout most weightlifting movements).

If you modify this movement by doing isometric holds at various points in the range of motion, it can potentially help do all of these things: correct poor scapular stability, improve scapular retraction, increase shoulder range of motion, and strengthen weak middle and lower trapezius muscles.

The movement involves scapular contraction and depression, along with spinal extension and compression through the thoracolumbar region, and also acts as a core stabilization exercise through anti-rotation and anti-flexion.

Key shoulder movements that involve the pectoralis major include shoulder horizontal adduction (moving the arms together in the transverse plane at shoulder height), shoulder adduction (moving the arms down to the sides, from shoulder height), shoulder scapular flexion or extension (moving the arms to or from shoulder height in the scapular plane in front of the body), and shoulder flexion or extension (moving the arms to or from shoulder height in front of the body).