Warming Up: Pectoral & Lateral Stretches Video

Pectoral and lateral stretches are a good way to cool down. Get tips on the benefits of pectoral and lateral stretches from a former professional athlete in this free video.

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Vincent has played football for the past seven years. Vincent has also played professional football in Europe.

O'kay we are going to cool down a little bit but what we are going to do is we are going to do a pec and lat stretch and basically he is just going to grasp his shoulders as much as he can and again a lot of people don't have this range of motion but get what you can out of it and this really will get across the back. We will go ahead and so we will see that by pulling on his opposite shoulder he is really stretching his back out and it goes all the way down to the lower lat as well, which is a common muscle to have link and lateral problems tears or strains and those can be very painful. He is going to switch up his hands and go ahead and turn your back towards the camera and again you can see he is just really squeezing across here. The range of motion for a lot of people won't be this great but it is one of those things again. Set goals for yourselves to where you might just start off to where it is as low as the cuff of your sleeve just due to shoulder problems but if you can go through all the steps that we talked about warming up this shouldn't be too much of a problem. Now we will go ahead and go through the full range of motion and this is a great one just to get the chest pumped up and also stretch the back at the same time. You can alternate and go hand over hand through each rep and just go through that a few times, 10 to 20 and you can do it for sets as well, take yourself a break and then go back to it. But for right now, good job and it looks like he is already warmed up and pumped up.

Warming Up: Pectoral & Lateral Stretches Video

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