Eccentryx / Exercise Atlas / recovery
Hanging lat stretch
Grab rack or rope, sit hips back, keep ribs tucked.
Muscles
- Primary
- lats
- Supporting
- teres major, ribs
Mechanics
- Pattern
- lat lengthening
- Equipment
- rack, rope
- Geometry
- Variable Range
- Energy model
- Aerobic Stability (>90s)
- Target feel
- Lat lengthens from armpit to low ribs without shoulder pinch.
- Progression
- Add slow side-breaths into the tight lat.
- Regression
- Hold a lighter angle if shoulder position feels crowded.
Watch for
- Overarching low back
- Letting grip yank the shoulder
Substitutions
- Bench lat stretch
- Child's pose lat reach
- Cable lat prayer