In the video above, Sulaver demonstrates the 3 Y raise, a targeted single-arm exercise that challenges the lower traps and improves their ability to help keep your shoulders down and back. (You can also find this move in Sulaver’s free training program, Lights Out, in the Men’s Health app.)
"We spend so much time working those internal rotators, like our pecs and our lats," Sulaver says before demonstrating this beneficial movement.
Wide shoulders are a key component of a great summer body, and we’re barely a month into the season. The last thing you need right now is to be prevented from working out your shoulders because you’re sidelined by an injury.
The key to this move, as with any exercise that targets the body’s smaller stabilizing muscles, is to use a light weight. As Sulaver says, “this isn’t an ego exercise.”
Got questions, or want to share some other exercises that you use to keep injury at bay? Hit us up (@menshealthmag), as well as Sulaver (@bandanatraining), on social media and be sure to include the hashtag #MHRecRoom.
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