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Pec Stretch & Butcher Block
1 min
No equipment
2 exercises
Target regions
Strength
Stretch
Shoulders
Arms
Chest
Core
Back
Legs
A 1-minute chest-opening sequence aimed at reversing the rounded-shoulder posture that comes from long hours at a desk.
Use a doorway to lengthen the chest one shoulder at a time, then drop into a butcher block hold – forearms on a surface, hips back, chest sinking toward the floor. The combination stretches both pecs and lats, the two muscle groups most responsible for pulling shoulders forward.
When the chest stays short for hours, the shoulders rotate inward and the upper back stiffens. Brief, frequent pec-and-lat lengthening has been shown to improve resting shoulder posture more reliably than longer, infrequent stretches.
Ready when you are
1 min · 2 exercises