Eccentryx / Exercise Atlas / recovery
Doorway pec stretch
Forearm on doorway, elbow near shoulder height, step through slowly.
Muscles
- Primary
- chest
- Supporting
- front delts
Mechanics
- Pattern
- chest isolation
- Equipment
- bodyweight
- Geometry
- Variable Range
- Energy model
- Aerobic Stability (>90s)
- Target feel
- Chest opens without front-shoulder pinch or rib flare.
- Progression
- Try low, mid, and high elbow angles for three slow breaths.
- Regression
- Use less step-through if the front shoulder pinches.
Watch for
- Cranking the shoulder
- Arching low back
Substitutions
- Sleeper stretch
- Band shoulder floss
- Cross-body stretch