Prone Weighted Flexion
The Prone Weighted Flexion exercise is an active mobility drill targeting the upper traps. It's used to help develop the shoulder girdle for handstand shoulder mobility.
- Type Of Exercise: Mobility
- Muscles: Trapezius, Shoulders
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Equipment: Barbell, Weighted Dowel
Prone Weighted Flexion
- Lay on your stomach, body straight, and a weighted bar extended overhead.
- Look up slightly so that your chin, and not your forehead, is in contact with the floor.
- Hold the bar with a shoulder-width grip, shrug your shoulders to your ears as much as possible, and lift the bar high.
- Keep your elbows 100% straight, chin down, and chest down, as you hold for time.
- Exercise: Supine Weighted Flexion
- Type of Exercise: Mobility
- Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Abdominals
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Equipment: Barbell, Weighted Dowel
- Exercise: Standing Weighted Over Grip Shoulder Dislocate
- Type of Exercise: Mobility
- Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Equipment: Barbell, Weighted Dowel
