Stretch Your Imagination
April/May 2005

This exercise is designed to strengthen the posterior rotator cuff to compensate for forward reaching all day long.

With the shoulders relaxed and upper arms against the sides of the body, flex both elbows to 90o. To start with, your hands should be in front of your body. Rotate your arms outward by pivoting at the shoulder. Hold in the maximum rotated position. You will feel some tension on the back of the shoulders, even into the shoulder blades. It is okay to stick the chest out a bit when you do this exercise.

If you notice a big difference in the amount that one arm rotates, you may be doing too much work with one arm and need to transfer some workload to the other arm.

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