INCLINE BENCH Y-RAISE

This is a scapula posterior tilting and up-rotation strengthening exercise. Lie down on your stomach while on a bench set up to 45 degrees. Hold a dumbbell in each hand. Keep your chest on the bench during this exercise. Raise your arms overhead at roughly 130 degrees abduction. Focus on tilting the scapula back as if to push the bottom edge of it into your rib cage, and the top edge of it off of the rib cage. Lower your arms to complete a repetition

Muscles Involved:

• Lower Trapezius

• Serratus Anterior

Related Conditions:

• Dynamic Shoulder Instability

• Shoulder Impingement / Subacromial Impingement

• Upper Cross Syndrome

• Posture (Hunched Shoulders)

• scapular winging

• scapular dyskinesia

• rotator cuff tendinitis

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