Eccentryx / Exercise Atlas / recovery
Supine Lat Stretch
Lie on back, arms overhead, ribs down, and reach long without arching.
Muscles
- Primary
- lats
- Supporting
- teres major
Mechanics
- Pattern
- static stretch
- Equipment
- bodyweight
- Geometry
- Variable Range
- Energy model
- Aerobic Stability (>90s)
- Target feel
- Lat lengthens from armpit to side ribs.
- Progression
- Add side bend away from the target lat.
- Regression
- Bend elbows or use a towel support.
Watch for
- Flaring ribs
- Letting shoulder pinch
Substitutions
- Child's Pose
- Hanging lat stretch
- Lat Roll