Shoulder
Alternate Shoulder Flexion Back to Wall
Stand with your back, head, and hips against a wall. Keep your core engaged and maintain contact between your lower back and the wall.
- Equipment
- No Equipment
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- Focus Area
- Shoulder
- Injury risk
- Low
Primary muscles
- anterior deltoid
Secondary muscles
- upper trapezius
- serratus anterior
- rotator cuff
Target muscles
- shoulder
How to perform
- 1
Stand with your back, head, and hips against a wall.
- 2
Keep your core engaged and maintain contact between your lower back and the wall.
- 3
Start with both arms resting by your sides.
- 4
Slowly raise one arm overhead as far as possible while keeping it close to the wall.
- 5
Lower the arm back to the starting position under control.
- 6
Repeat the movement with the opposite arm.
- 7
Continue alternating arms for the prescribed number of repetitions.
Safety & form
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