Reverse Flies with Exercise Resistance Band

Video Transcript

"The next exercise I'm going to show you is called the reverse fly. This exercise will work your upper back muscles a little bit. It?s going to work your delts, your rhomboids and your trapezius. So the muscles of the upper back. I want you to take your tube. I'm going to demonstrate this from behind and in front. What you're going to do is take the tube, you're just actually going to hold on to the tube itself, not the handles. Palms are down. You're going to try to keep your elbows slightly bent. Tube should be in line with your chest. I'm going to show you from behind. Now from here, keeping your arms in position. You're going to bring that tube to your chest. Thinking about squeezing your shoulder blades together. And then return to the start position. Bring the tube to your chest, squeeze the shoulder blades together. And return to start position. It?s very important that you understand to bring those shoulder blades together. And when you understand that principal, Then you can start adding the tubing as well. Now once again, you can bring your hands in a little closer together to provide a little bit more resistance. Bring them farther apart for less resistance. Ok. Now if you feel excess strain on your neck when doing this exercises. Which does happen when you raise your shoulders to your ears. Remember to keep those shoulders down, focus on working the back. What starts to happen when we get tired is the shoulders start coming up towards the ears. So we just keep the shoulders down and relaxed. Think about working the muscles of the upper back."