Exercise guide

Overhead Stretch

CategoryStretching ForceStatic MechanicCompound LevelBeginner

How to do the Overhead Stretch: step-by-step instructions, muscles worked (Abdominals), and equipment. Log it in Vantora.

How to perform the Overhead Stretch exercise

How to do the Overhead Stretch

  1. Standing straight up, lace your fingers together and open your palms to the ceiling. Keep your shoulders down as you extend your arms up.
  2. To create a full torso stretch, pull your tailbone down and stabilize your torso as you do this. Stretch the muscles on both the front and the back of the torso.

Muscles worked

abdominals chest forearms lats triceps

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