What are the strokes on the face?

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face strokes are a strength exercise aimed at increasing mobility in shoulder blades and to strengthen the muscles that rotate these bones ascending, specifically trapezoid in the back. They require a cable machine with an adjustable pulley set to the height of the face and the rope handle and include pulling both terminal ropes on both sides of the face by infecting these upper back. Specifically, the faces are pulling to the rear deltooids on the back of the shoulders and trapezoids, while the form dictates the optimum recruitment of fibers from the weakest part of the muscle, the lower trapezoid. Horizontal turn -based exercises such as rows, reverse flies and facial strokes include towing backward relative to the body. These exercises focus on top and rear deltoids, most of the back of the shoulder muscle.

The actual move in the face is done towards the cable belt and stands upright a few feet back from the pulley. Using a rope handle, typeThe cable connection, which has a rope length with the ended ends connected to the pulley in the center, will grab either the end rope with arms stretched in front of it and palms facing inwards, thumbs towards the ceiling and the end of the rope tilted up. Then the upper back of the muscles is built to insert or draw the shoulder blades back, while the elbows were pulling back into the horizontal line until they were on the same plane with their shoulders. At the same time, the practitioner pulls the rope towards the face and approaches the ends of the lanaruce are roughly on the level with the top of the head and the palms are pointing in. This position resembles bodybuilding that bends hands in a classic strong pose.

The right form for face strokes can be slightly changed to better target the lower part of the trapezoid, usually the weakest part of the muscle. While trapezius as a whole is a diamond muscle spanning most of the upper back, the lower fibers form a triangular muscle from the fifth to 12th. The thoracic vertebra in the middle. These threads run under an oblique angleUp and outwards and converge to attach to the back of the blades just behind the shoulder joint. The lower trapezoid acts up to rotate the shoulder blades and at the same time spread them apart, while attracting their lower ends up and out towards the shoulders.

To best target the lower trapezes with strokes on the face, the exercise must take care of to turn the shoulders externally as it pulled the rope backwards. In the words of the words, the hands should not be allowed to drop forward as the rope approaches the face, the signal that the shoulders rotate in. Hands should end on both sides of the face on the same plane as or slightly behind the elbows if the user has sufficient flexibility in the shoulders before returning to the initial position.