Thoracic Mobility Drill Gone Bad (OOPS!)

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Fix your posture and build a ripped athletic body in 90 days http://athleanx.com/x/get-the-body-of-an-athlete Thoracic mobility and mobilization drills are not something you can afford to overlook, especially if you want to be able to keep your shoulders healthy while lifting overhead. You might be thinking how your back mobility matters when you’re performing overhead lifts? It is actually critical. In this video, I show you how in order to get your arms fully overhead to perform lifts like the overhead press, snatch and overhead squats, you will need full mobility of your t-spine. Any lift or exercise that you perform overhead will require that your shoulders are mobile. Full shoulder mobility is required in order to get them flexed and elevated over your head 165 degrees. That said, in order to execute the exercises I named safely, you need to get your arms 180 degrees. This extra 15 degrees of range of motion is not going to come from your shoulder joint but rather from your thoracic spine. Your thoracic spine has to be able to extend at least 15 degrees from neutral in order to achieve the mobility needed to safely lift overhead. The problem is, with the rampant bad posture that we battle because of all the time we spend on the computers, driving, etc we have to scratch and claw for every one of those degrees. It is such a common problem for people to not be able to achieve the full thoracic mobility needed to lift overhead safely and therefore leads to many o

Published 2016-04-12 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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