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Dom McKay musculoskeletal therapist in this video we're going to be talking
about the biceps now I'm gonna teach you ways of releasing it with a ball and the
stretch biceps can get tight for all sorts of reasons probably from lifting
at the gym now if you're experiencing any sort of
anterior shoulder pain so pain at the front of your shoulder then it's
important to release the biceps because there's a tendon that runs up through
here and if your biceps are tight it's probably what's pulling on it so stay
tuned
okay so biceps release is pretty straightforward we just take a ball and
you can place it either against a wall or I prefer to use like a pole like this
if you've got got this accessible to you and then just lean in on it leaning your
weight against the ball and really try and find the the most sore point of your
bicep so I went directly on to a trigger point there you can straight the more
you straighten your arm the harder this is going to hit onto the bicep you can
sort of just work your way down the bicep and as it gets closer to the
shoulder you'll probably start to feel some interesting sensations okay so in
order to stretch the biceps I like to place my hand against the wall here and
then look away so you feel a strong stretch down here and you might even
feel a stretch into your thumb like a nerve kind of stretch so you want to
open up this shoulder really kind of emphasize the stretch into that biceps
just hold this
you want to hold that for about a minute or two