So the strength component and the strength exercise that you're going to do right now is a little bit contrary to what you might be thinking about. And this is an exciting way to start to teach you about my way of viewing the human body. And when new sciences moving on how we need to get function back into the body and start balancing the body out. We're talking about raising the shoulder up towards our ear here. So what we're doing is we're shortening a lot of this tissue up in through the neck. So if this was my tissue here, it's going to get short and bunched all up towards the ear like this.

So when we're talking about strengthening, we're not actually talking about strengthening this tissue because it's already short and tight. What we're looking to do as a failsafe, rather than just releasing tension into here, we're actually going to strengthen It's opposite or what we would say antagonistic muscles. So a good example of that is the bicep. I wish I had bigger biceps in order to, to demonstrate this too. But when the bicep contracts and shortened through this way, the tricep lengthens, and elongation relaxes through this way, otherwise we wouldn't be able to do this motion. So this is a good kind of old school mechanical way of thinking about the human body, which works great for this for this example.

So we shorten a contract through here, and then this lengthens now if I stood like this, eight hours a day, five days a week, for a couple of weeks, months, years, most of us stopped sitting in poor posture around six years old. And then someone said to me, Well, now I need you to lengthen your arm. Well, that's going to be difficult because it's so short and tight through here, and it's lengthen and weaken through here. So through these series, you're looking at kind of balancing this out here, but one thing we can do is strengthen the tricep. To now bring balance between this tissue. So the question is then what is the antagonist of this upper trapezius?

Well, luckily, and I'll show you in the diagram here, we also have the lower trapezius. So let me show you we call the trapezius kind of like a nice diamond of the back, you could imagine that we would have to and inside a terrible drawing there, sorry. So here we have in blue, we have the upper trapezius and then we've got more the middle trapezius and then let's do a nice purpley color for this lower trapezius down in through here. So if we are strengthening the lower trapezius, then what that's doing is that's actually going to help pull the shoulder down and back. And then example they use in the gym world or yoga world is trying to fit the scapular in your back pockets. biggest mistake people make when they do that is they push the chest forward as they try and contract that tissue down, hundred percent not encouraging that you're now creating a new tension pattern around it.

So hopefully you would have experienced that. As you go with the strengthening exercise here, it's particular about not doing that. So you're looking to strengthen two muscles. One is this lower trapezius area in through here, and that's going to help as this is strengthened. That's going to help reset the shoulders naturally so you're not having to pull your shoulders down all the time, which is fatiguing in itself. So it's a natural stabilization there.

And then we also talk about strengthening the serratus anterior, which we call the boxers muscle. It starts back in through here underneath the scapula wraps down into the rib cage. If you look at a boxer or it's nice and developed in through here kind of looks like some fingers running in and through and the job of this Rate ascent theory as to kind of pin that scapular in against the body, which is why it's a good boxer myself because we're all nice and tucked in. So when I work with my boxing clients, I'm looking at trying to undo all of that and get all this tissue nice and open, which is what you're going to see through this through this series here. So you're looking to strengthen both those tissues. Again, simple exercise designed that way you can do it during the day, wherever you are, I do it waiting for a bus or waiting for clients to turn around.

And we're looking to balance this imbalance between a hypertonicity or a hypertonic tissue up in through up in through here and a weakness down below there. So we're reversing, balancing out those two areas for you.