Muscles Of The Week... Rhomboids
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I am starting a new series. I want people to learn more about the body and how it works. I talk about the brain and body needing to learn to talk to one another. They need to speak the same language. During my time with clients and athletes I have realized that most of them have little to none body awareness.
Now let me be clear. You do not need to understand or have in- depth knowledge to have good body awareness, but it helps tremendously when you at least know where the muscle is and how it works.
So during this series I am going to try and keep it simple. I will provide you with what I deem credible sources that I use/d during my studies and ongoing quest to fully understand movement.
Muscles Of The Week... Rhomboids.
These two muscles are not fully responsible for our posture but play a big role in it.If we do not activate them we see the rounded back posture.This is only one possibility of the rounded back postures, there are many possibilities and dysfunctions that can lead to bad posture.The Rhomboids stabilize the scapula, in other words our wings...These need to be strong to keep a straight posture. Knowing where they are helps us activate them. The movements they are responsible for are small but so very important!! How to activate these muscle is one of the first thing I teach all my clients and athletes. Because if we can keep a good, stabile posture we automatically decrease the risk of injury. No matter the movement we are carrying out.
KenHub explains the Rhomboids as follows": The Rhomboid muscles are two diamond-shaped muscles of the shoulder girdle. Both extend from the vertebral column to the medial border of the scapula. They lie over the autochthonous back muscles but under the trapezius. The Rhomboid Muscles are divided in two. Rhomboid Major and Rhomboid Minor. Their contraction causes adduction, elevation, rotation and stabilization of scapula."
Follow link for a video.
Keep Moving until next time👋
I am starting a new series. I want people to learn more about the body and how it works. I talk about the brain and body needing to learn to talk to one another. They need to speak the same language. During my time with clients and athletes I have realized that most of them have little to none body awareness.
Now let me be clear. You do not need to understand or have in- depth knowledge to have good body awareness, but it helps tremendously when you at least know where the muscle is and how it works.
So during this series I am going to try and keep it simple. I will provide you with what I deem credible sources that I use/d during my studies and ongoing quest to fully understand movement.
Muscles Of The Week... Rhomboids.
These two muscles are not fully responsible for our posture but play a big role in it.If we do not activate them we see the rounded back posture.This is only one possibility of the rounded back postures, there are many possibilities and dysfunctions that can lead to bad posture.The Rhomboids stabilize the scapula, in other words our wings...These need to be strong to keep a straight posture. Knowing where they are helps us activate them. The movements they are responsible for are small but so very important!! How to activate these muscle is one of the first thing I teach all my clients and athletes. Because if we can keep a good, stabile posture we automatically decrease the risk of injury. No matter the movement we are carrying out.
KenHub explains the Rhomboids as follows": The Rhomboid muscles are two diamond-shaped muscles of the shoulder girdle. Both extend from the vertebral column to the medial border of the scapula. They lie over the autochthonous back muscles but under the trapezius. The Rhomboid Muscles are divided in two. Rhomboid Major and Rhomboid Minor. Their contraction causes adduction, elevation, rotation and stabilization of scapula."
Follow link for a video.
Keep Moving until next time👋
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