Add These Chest-Opening Exercises To Your Workout Routine To Give Your Body A Range Of Benefits

Far too much of modern life is spent hunched over technology, and since our bodies didn’t evolve to be forever in a slumped position, this doesn’t feel, you know, super great. To counterbalance this repetitive, harmful, but ultimately unavoidable activity, it can be helpful to add specific chest-opening exercises into your workout routine. A workout teacher demos a workout specifically designed to include such exercises so as to help alleviate the aches and pains associated with daily hunching.

“Today we’re going to be doing a series of stretches aimed at improving mid-back flexibility, relieving tension through the front of the shoulders and neck, and overall helping you with your posture and feeling like you can really get those shoulders nice and back,” he says.

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Spencer notes that it’s helpful to think of the back, spine, and chest as a single unit when trying to figure out how to address tightness and tension in the upper body. For example, if you have trouble opening up your chest, you’ll want to find relief through your mid-back, which will help alleviate the discomfort that comes from a rounded posture.

Follow the given tips to enhance mobility in various parts of the body. “Anytime we can add a little bit of mobility through the forearm, and through the wrist, it will also help us improve mobility in the shoulder joint,” he says.

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As recommended, practice the routine at your speed. The reason behind this is that you can linger in stretches which will further help you to feel better. The expected outcome can be tightness in the dominant arm which is used for typing and texting so consider taking care of it.

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