So the strength component then as far as mid and upper back pain is concerned for the shoulders here is we're looking to one to rebalance. If we're raising up in through here, then what we need to do is start to bring the shoulder blade down and back again, in order to help us with that. So what's what's cool for us when we look at the old school way of looking at the human body, which is still relevant to us, is that we're thinking about muscle tissue as antagonists. So we've got here a good example for this is the bicep. So as this contracts and pulls in through this way, then it lengthens out in through this way as we do that, so it's important when we're thinking about the relationship with the back unit. If you're raising the shoulder up like that, that's causing all this tension up in through here, we want to bring the shoulder blade down and back.

But the problem is, is we try to pull down like this, and we're finding all this tension in through here. And that means that you're having to do it consciously. The goal here is to have this subconsciously in the brain kind of rewiring the body and the brain here, so that you don't have to think about it on a day to day basis. It just happens naturally to you. So what we're going to do is you're going to strengthen the tissue in through the back, like the lower trapezius in through here. In fact, let me get my little diagram up here for you.

We've got here, this is the lower trapezius that you can see. Middle trapezius, see the five notice that the fibers are going this way on their notice with the lower trapezius fibers are coming down through this way so because when fibers contract, they pour themselves closer to each other and you are looking to instead of being contracting this way in green running up through here, which is shortening this tissue. Actually what we're going to do, we're going to shift our focus to these fibers in the lower trapezius. And you're going to start to bring that scapular which is like this on the back, we want to start to bring that we want to bring that down in through this way, and we're doing that through the lower trapezius. And then the other muscle you're going to be looking at is the serratus. anterior, which Its job is to pull the scapula in.

We call it the boxers muscle because if we're in this kind of positioning, then it gets nice and strong. And in through here, I mean, looks like kind of fingers coming down in on the on the ribcage. Those of you that are familiar or can be looking at the serratus anterior muscle that that it's pulling down. So we're looking to strengthen that the kind of lower portions of the serratus anterior, but bringing their shoulder blades down and back. It's going to hug the scapula back down. You don't have to think so much about keeping the shoulders down all the time, like what you did in the awareness exercise.

It's going to rebalance Enjoy the rest of your life.