We all know and love Lat stretches. Heck I’m stretching my lats right now as I type this (impressive right?). Lats are obviously a major muscle that can decrease your ability to bring your arms overhead. I also recently wrote about how tight lats can potentially create subacromial impingement syndrome and shoulder pain at the shoulder. Better get those lats in line if you want to kip well and avoid future pain. Here is my favorite way to stretch the lats.
Read the text in the instagram video below for instructions. Just remember that you should be feeling a stretch in the lats and not a painful pinch at the top of the shoulder blade (you might be pinching your rotator cuff if that’s what you feel).
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LAT ATTACK,
Daniel Pope DPT, CSCS