The Active Office Worker Ep. 03: Shoulder Mobility & Posture

When busy at your desk, it’s easy to ignore shoulder posture. Work can take a toll on mobility and strength, but you can help offset it with 3 moves.

Office life affects your shoulder posture in 2 major ways.

One is that when your shoulders are rounded forward most of the day to type and do work at your desk, they adapt to that hunched position. This makes it more difficult to do overhead activities, like overhead squats, shooting hoops, or even changing a light bulb.

Secondly, we know that work often goes hand in hand with stress. Stress just serves to compound this poor positioning, further hiking your shoulders up and contributing to hunchback or thoracic kyphosis.

The 3 posture exercises I’ll teach you today will help combat these issues and improve shoulder flexibility and even functional strength by improving muscle activation patterns.

The first technique is an Active Self-Myofascial Release (ASMR) drill for the pectoralis major muscle that can help improve shoulder flexibility and help you sit up taller.

The next two drills will help awaken shoulder musculature that can tend to get lazy and sleepy when you’re at a desk all day. The first exercise will specifically focus on activating the external rotators of your shoulder, while the second focuses on the internal rotators.

These exercises will help you activate your shoulder muscles to assist in performing overhead activities and other functional movements at the shoulder with strength and efficiency.

Commit a few minutes a day to improving your shoulder posture while chained to the desk. I think it’s likely you’ll not only feel better and more mobile, you’ll probably work more efficiently too.

Do you have shoulder pain or do you want to improve shoulder mobility?
Then check out the Shoulder Control course here:
https://www.precisionmovement.coach/shoulder-control/

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