Standing Chest Stretch
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- Stand tall and strong with your feet spaced about shoulder-width apart, maintaining a slight bend at the knee.
- Reach both hands behind your lower back, and interlock your fingers where they meet in the middle.
- Roll your shoulders back and pull your rear shoulder blades toward each other while slightly pushing your chest out.
- Keeping only a very slight bend at the elbow, lift your hands away from your lower back to create a stretching sensation in your chest and shoulders.
- Hold for the specified amount of time.
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Standing chest stretch is a at-home work out exercise that targets chest and also involves shoulders. Refer to the illustration diagram and instructions above for how to perform this exercise correctly. Push-ups / pushups, bosu ball push-ups / pushups and raised one-legged / leg push ups / push-ups are related exercise that target the same muscle groups as standing chest stretch. Visit our free illustrated exercise directory for more exercises to try in your workouts.
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