Open Scarecrows
- Stand strong, with your feet grounded placed at shoulder-width apart, while maintaining a tight core and flat back, pull your arms out and upwards away from your sides, leading with your elbows.
- Pause when your upper arm is parallel with the floor, and your hands are hanging down towards the floor with a 90-degree bend at the elbow joint.
- Slowly rotate your upper arm bringing your hands forward, keeping the same angle bend at the elbow.
- Continue to rotate bringing your hands up so that they are above your shoulders and next to your head.
- Pause and then slowly return to the starting position.
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Open scarecrows is a at-home work out exercise that targets shoulders and also involves upper back & lower traps. Refer to the illustration diagram and instructions above for how to perform this exercise correctly. Farmer?s walk / carry, bodyweight shoulder presses and resistance band shoulder front raises are related exercise that target the same muscle groups as open scarecrows. Visit our free illustrated exercise directory for more exercises to try in your workouts.
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