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Flexibility exercise

Lat Stretch (Overhead)

How to do it

  1. Stand tall with feet hip-width apart and interlace your fingers together.
  2. Turn your palms to face the ceiling and press your arms fully overhead.
  3. Keep the elbows extended and reach upward as if trying to touch the ceiling.
  4. Hold the reach only until you feel a stretch running down both sides of the upper back and lats.
  5. Breathe slowly and hold the position for 20 to 30 seconds.
  6. Lower the arms with control to release.

Muscles worked

Latissimus DorsiLarge back muscle responsible for shoulder extension, adduction, and internal rotation. All Latissimus Dorsi exercises

Related Lats exercises

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Type
Flexibility
Primary muscles
Latissimus Dorsi
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