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Standing Weighted Shoulder Extension
The Standing Weighted Shoulder Extension is a weighted mobility drill that helps prepare the shoulder girdle for ring exercises and handstands.
- Type Of Exercise: Mobility
- Muscles: Shoulders, Biceps
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Equipment: Barbell, Weighted Dowel
Standing Weighted Shoulder Extension
- Begin standing with a weighted bar held behind your glutes, palms forward.
- At first, use as wide a grip as necessary but aim to move narrower over time.
- Keep your body fully upright, retract your shoulder blades (pinch them together), and lift the bar up behind you with straight elbows.
- Keep retracting, lift the bar as high as possible, and hold for time at your end range.
- Exercise: Seated Weighted Shoulder Flexion
- Type of Exercise: Mobility
- Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Equipment: Barbell, Weighted Dowel
- Exercise: Supine Weighted Flexion
- Type of Exercise: Strength
- Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Abdominals
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Equipment: Barbell, Weighted Dowel