An Exercise to Broaden and Strengthen Your Shoulders

In most gymnasiums there is an excellent exercise practiced to broaden the shoulders by means of lateral tension. Standing between two upright parallel bars, the student grasps them with both hands, his arms out¬stretched at right angles to the body. The exercise consists in pulling alternately with either hand, first right, then left. This action exercises or stretches laterally the muscles of the shoulders, and, if regularly and persistently prac¬ticed, improvement is certain. In my goal to design the exercises to be done all while lying in bed, I tried attaching rings bars and ropes on the side to put lateral tension on the shoulder muscles. But they were unsuccessful as they caused inconvenience. The body is unstable as it is moved from side to side while the e View the rest of this article