Seated Weighted Shoulder Flexion
The Seated Weighted Shoulder Flexion is an excellent weighted mobility drill to open shoulders for handstand work.
- Type Of Exercise: Mobility
- Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Equipment: Barbell, Weighted Dowel
Seated Weighted Shoulder Flexion
- Begin sitting cross legged on the floor.
- Grab a weighted bar with a shoulder-width grip and raise it overhead.
- Shrug your shoulders to your ears, straighten your elbows, and sit up tall.
- Pull your arms behind your ears, tighten your core, and lean forward, hinging at your hips.
- As you lean forward, you must maintain a maximal shoulder shrug and keep a straight line from your hips to your hands.
- Hold the forward lean for time. If the bar drops down and your shoulder angle closes, reset and try again with a more suitable weight and/or forward lean.
- Exercise: Standing Weighted Shoulder Extension
- Type of Exercise: Mobility
- Muscles: Shoulders, Biceps
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Equipment: Body Only
- Exercise: Supine Weighted Flexion
- Type of Exercise: Mobility
- Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Abdominals
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Equipment: Barbell, Weighted Dowel
