Description
The YTW exercise for scapular retraction is designed to strengthen the inter-scapular muscles between your shoulder blades, to help retract or pull your shoulders back, helping to maintain proper upright posture.
Muscles
Primary muscles
- Front deltoid
Secondary muscles
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Description and images from the open wger exercise database, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (authors: probablyforging). Translations by Calix are shared under the same license. Muscle diagrams: wger project (AGPL-3.0).