The lats pulldown exercise is an excellent exercise for the scapular muscles[²].
Don’t Move Your Shoulder Blades Down and Together at the Start.
This is wrong!
Don’t Let Your Shoulders Rise at the Top.
Elbows a Touch in Front of Your Shoulder
Keep doing the lats pulldown exercise.
Take care.
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If you are looking for exercises to help strengthen your scapular muscles, this program will help:
Posture and Scapular Muscles
Rick Kaselj, MS
References:
- Behrens, N. (2013). Shoulder and upper arm. In Elsevier eBooks (pp. 321–363). https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-7020-4312-3.00028-3
- Beaudry, K. M., Surdi, J. C., Mari, A., & Devries, M. C. (2022). Exercise mode influences post‐exercise glucose sensitivity and insulin clearance in young, healthy males and females in a sex‐dependent manner: A randomized control trial. Physiological Reports, 10(13). https://doi.org/10.14814/phy2.15354