Improve Your Overhead Mobility with a Foam Roller

Follow up your lat/teres major/muscular-stuff-under-your-armpits foam rolling with this mobility drill to work on overhead range of motion while increasing thoracic spine extension simultaneously. If you have the hip and knee mobility to assume this position you can help take those joints out of the equation (along with the lumbar spine, at least partially) and select for slightly more targeted t-spine motion. This might enable you to get more range than you would performing this same drill standing with the foam roller against the wall and may have some transfer to deep overhead squatting. Effective cues I've found are "sink your chest lower to the ground", "rock your butt back to your heels" and "stretch your arms out forward." Just not all at once 😉 #clintonleept #mobility #stuff #overheadsquat #thoracicspine #snatch #regionalinterdependence #shoulderrehab #rangeofmotion #childspose #yoga #physicaltherapy #clinicalathlete #taliscrew #dragonboat #crossfit

A video posted by PhysioStrength (@physiostrengthnyc) on Jul 14, 2016 at 3:57pm PDT