Level up your pulling exercises. [video tutorial]

Shoulder blade and elbows.

This is a common coaching cue I give to patients and clients when they perform pulling exercises.

This helps to make sure the bigger back muscles are doing the work and it takes stress off the wrist and elbow.

If you follow this approach to pulling, your range of motion (ROM) will be a little different too. If you focus on pulling through the shoulder blades, they will move toward your spine.

Once they reach a certain point, they can no longer go any further (they cannot cross over your spine). This is the end of the line for whatever pulling movement you are working on.

But, learning this part is only half the battle. You then need to learn how to release the shoulder blade on each rep so you can use it to start the next rep.

This process is trickier than it sounds because you cannot see the shoulder blades. You must rely on feeling what is going on.

Learning how to pull this way will help take stress out of where it doesn't belong and make your pulls a lot stronger.