You may have heard of the scapula before, though it is more commonly called the shoulder blade. Scapulas play a very important role in the way your arms, shoulders, and back move.

Having better scapular movement will help you in your calisthenics journey with literally ALL upper body exercises (and full body too). So I hope you use these and include them in your workouts ...

When you lift a weight overhead, the scapula is rotated upward and outward on your rib cage so that the surrounding muscles can work to move and stabilize the shoulder joint. When you’re ...

Typically, a Barry's Bootcamp class is 60 minutes of nonstop (very, very) intense movement. From running to sprinting to the weight training (and back and forth between them over and over again), you ...

The scapula push-up is a bodyweight exercise that develops shoulder strength, mobility, stability, ... This 3-move bodyweight workout builds full-body strength and sculpts your core.

- Depression – The scapula move in an inferior direction. - Upward Rotation– The inferior angle of the scapula moves in a superior-lateral direction such that the glenoid fossa faces upward.

The scapula is surrounded by thick layers of muscle that are responsible for the smooth movement of the shoulder joint. The shoulder blade (scapula) is rarely broken (broken bones are also called ...

Lounge decodes one such move: the scapular pull-up. Bodyweight training allows you to keep progressing on a basic skill by adding new stimuli through dozens of variations of the same move.

Along with scapula push-ups, scap pull-ups are a great way to train the muscles responsible for upper body stabilization and movement, especially if you enjoy push-pull workouts.