So the strength component then just like what we did with the shoulder raised up, those of you that did it is we're looking at not strengthening this line in through here, it kind of kills me a little bit to hear people that sit behind a computer all day. And then they go and do chest press and weights. They're strengthening all this tissue that's already tightened around their body, which, if you hear that doesn't really make sense. You could imagine the peg tissue. This is a simplistic view, it's actually kind of running down here. The fibers are running that way, pick winners this way.
But let's say that we're already tight through here. So this is kind of already short term to this point. Now we're going to go and pump some weights. And we're going to we're going to show in this tissue even more because when we exercise muscle tissue, we're contracting it Pull it together. In fact, I did some recent work in cadaver labs here in the Bay Area. And the anatomist there, her definition of strength was the muscle tissues ability to contract, and then relax.
And I thought that was a really nice way of defining strength moving away from this old model. Like in this picture here of Arnold Schwarzenegger, there are these big pec muscle tissue. That's not necessarily strength anymore. If you look at a picture of Bruce Lee, he's actually kind of tiny, really, with his muscle tissue. So we need to start moving away from this old paradigm of strength, his big strong muscle body. And we also want to think about the strength of the body as a whole not strength of tissues.
And now as a male, if you look at most Men's Health magazines or fitness magazines, it's all about nice big strong pecs, nice biceps or guns, the front of the body, nice, six pack abs. That's what we consider strength. But we need to, we need to switch that now and start thinking about the body a little bit more cylindrical. What is the Strengthen the body as a whole, not just in particular muscle tissue. So what we're trying to do here is not strengthen this component through here. But in fact, notice that we talked before that we're weakening through the bank, because we're stuck in this positioning all day long.
So now actually, what we're trying to do is strengthen this component in through here, at least we nicely into the exercise, which is going to be upright rows. And as a side note, in the video, it's just upright rows like this, you're working to strengthen that that lower middle trapezius again, and also the rhomboids there that kind of cross over each other. It's like someone's pulling the shoulder blade back in through this way, which is exactly what we want to do. So you're strengthening this back component to counteract this rounding in through the shoulders there. So upright row without anything, but if you want to add a little bit more to it, you can wrap the physio band or whatever something else stick to something stationary, that safe so that when you're pulling in through here, now you're strengthening this tissue a little bit more, but it's not a necessity because we've got so weak through here through so many years around, just doing upright rows and just pinning those shoulder blades back.
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