Don’t Let A Tight Pec Minor Destroy Your Layback

Don’t Let A Tight Pec Minor Ruin Your Layback 🔥🔥🔥

⚾️ Due to the repetitive nature of throwing, Pec Minor is one muscle that can slowly become tight over time

⚾️ This will lead to a forward shoulder/Anterior Tipped Scapula

⚾️ From here, your body has 2 options:
1) Accept and use this smaller arc of layback
2) Create excessive mobility at the local Glenohumeral (shoulder) joint to make up for this restriction

⬆️ Neither of these outcomes are optimal for your Velo or Arm Health

🔥 DO THIS INSTEAD ⬇️

1) Soft Tissue Elongation:

If you don’t have access to a PT/ATC on a daily basis, a lacrosse ball is going to become your best friend. Instead of just laying there statically, we love to perform the pin a stretch technique which pins down the muscle and forces it to lengthen while moving through a range of motion. This video demonstrates 1 of MANY ways to accomplish that for the Pec Minor

2) Perform a Movement that forces the body to use this new range of motion ➕ Make it stick by strengthening the opposite muscle group

⚾️ We killed two birds with one stone here with the wall slides which accomplish both of these goals. You could also have split these up into 2 goals that achieve these separately such as:

⚾️ Sub Maximal intent Pivot Picks: to recognize new layback and posterior tilt

⚾️ J Band Y’s: for low trap strengthening

🔥Improve your Performance and Arm Health by addressing issues like this before they snowball into a bigger problem

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