Catie Brier and Dr. Jennifer Crane – Unlocking the Elusive Upper Back
The Complete Flexibility Guide to unlocking your tight upper back and shoulders!
This online course will give you the tools needed to safely and efficiently improve your backbends, focusing on upper back and shoulders. It is appropriate for all levels, from the beginning flexibility student to the professional performing artist. The course s by discussing relevant anatomy and physiology of stretching, in terms you can ACTUALLY understand. Then, you’ll be lead through this four-part program one structure at a time. Each exercise will be broken down into its main components, so you’ll not only understand how to do the exercise correctly, but also what each exercise accomplishes. At the end of the course, you’ll have two separate workout plans (provided as downloadable PDF documents with photos and descriptions) to implement after you have a solid understanding of the individual exercises. These workouts, and their component exercises, are all engineered to work together to optimally enhance all aspects of upper body flexibility while also strengthening the muscles required for injury prevention!
Course Curriculum
- Welcome!
- Basic Principles of Flexibility (1:00)
- Biomechanics of the Backbend (12:19)
- The Pre-Stretching Warm Up (0:59)
- Guide to Exercises
- Disclaimer
- Tools Needed
- Peanut: Rotator cuff and Lats (0:32)
- Peanut: Pec Minor (0:41)
- Peanut: Thoracic Spine (0:28)
- Kneeling Thoracic Rotations (0:40)
- Windmill Progression (0:52)
- Median Nerve Glide (0:27)
- Ulnar Nerve Glide (0:32)
- Break the Bar (0:56)
- Cobra back ups (0:59)
- Floor Taps (0:44)
- Wall Taps (0:47)
- Overhead Windshield Wipers (0:33)
- Childs pose arm lifts (0:53)
- No-Cheat Neck Extensions (0:51)
- Deep Neck Flexor (DNF) Strengthening (0:32)
- Cool Down- ABS (0:46)
- Elevated Bridge (0:40)
- Lat Stretch (0:37)
- C Back with Pole (0:33)
- Assisted Shoulder Stretch (0:31)
- Shoulder Stretch at Wall (1:02)
- Workout 1
- Workout 2
Delivery Method
> All courses are available. We will send you the course you purchased via the order email.
> If you can’t find the download link for the course you paid for, please don’t worry about it. We will notify and update you via your email at 7:00 AM – 11:00 PM (UTC)
> In case the link is broken for any reason, please contact us via email [email protected] or live chat on the website. We will resend you a new download link.
> All courses are digital online versions, so you will download and save to your hard drive.
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