Ever been told that you must do a ‘pull’ exercise like a ‘row’ to ‘balance’ out your ‘pushing’ exercises?
So, you did a ‘chest press’ and then you ‘balanced’ it out with loads of bi-lateral ‘rows’ or ‘back’ exercises.
It is believed that ‘pushing’ exercises become too predominant like bench pressing, overhead pressing, incline pressing, so there is this need to ‘balance’ out the posture or shoulders by ‘pulling’ more.
However, when a bi-lateral row is done (pulling resistance with two arms), it reduces the body’s rotational capabilities. The ribcage will compress front-to-back, diminishing mobility and limiting synovial fluid motion.
‘Pulling’ resistance and squeezing the shoulder blades together to counteract all the ‘pushing’ will only stiffen the body up – it won’t improve posture.
When posture gets labelled as ‘good’ or ‘upright’ – this is the ability to expand the ribcage front-to-back. No amount of bi-lateral ‘pull’ exercises are going to achieve that.
A ribcage that can expand front-to-back will appear fuller, taller and more vertical.

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