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Muscles Stretched: pectoralis major, minor and deltoid anterior.

Description

1. Stand tall with your feet comfortably apart.
2. Bend your arm at right angles, and place the elbow and hand against a vertical wall.
3. Turn your body and feet away from the wall, so that your elbow is behind you, no longer out to the side.
4. Press your shoulder forward, until you only feel a stretch in the front chest and no pain or pinching anywhere in the shoulder.
5. Hold this stretch.

Notes

• Keep shoulder down and relaxed throughout the stretch
• You should feel the stretch across the front of your chest.
• Raising the elbow higher or lower changes the stretch.
• You will need to repeat this for each side of the body.

Related Pages

• See stretching guidelines for further instructions
• Complete stretching list
• See also tests to Measure Flexibility
• See all flexibility images in the Stretching Exercises Clipart Image Collection

Related Products

• Goniometers to measure flexibility.
• Stretching books

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Disclaimer

The above information is presented as a general guide. The author and publisher take no responsibility for any possible consequences of any treatment, procedure, exercise, action or application of medication based on this information. See more: Disclaimer.