Functional Exercises for the lower trapezius are incredibly important if your are interested in shoulder health and overhead strength and power. The upper trapezius tends to be tight and overused due to poor posture and stress.

Strengthening the lower trapezius with functional exercises will help to regulate this tension and decrease neck pain, shoulder pain, and headaches.

Weak lower traps can increase the likelihood of injuring your shoulder and suffereing from poor performance.
Lower trap exercises may be the key to unlocking your shoulder health. Many lower trapezius exercises neglect to train them functionally.
This video will show you ways to train the lower trapezius functionally and to fix your shoulder for good.

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What is the Lower Trapezius?

Lower trapezius primarily acts to draw the scapula inferomedially.
Lower trapezius origin - spinous processes and supraspinous ligaments of vertebrae T4-T12

Lower trapezius insertion- lateral apex of the medial end of scapular spine

Nerve innervation to the trapezius muscle is from a cranial nerve called the spinal accessory nerve. In other words, it travels down from your skull down to the trapezius muscle! This is unlike just about every other muscle in the upper and lower body.

Chapters:
00:00 - Why?
00:15 - Anatomy, Function, and problem with standard exercise
00:48 - Prone Shoulder Flexion Critique
1:44 - Functional Shoulder Flexion
2:30 - Wall Angel and Tweak
3:01 - Prone Flexion Tweak
3:22 - Prone Angel Tweak
3:41 - Other conditions helped by Lower trap strengthening

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