In this video I’m gonna show you how to stretch your teres major. The Teres Major muscle is usually being confused as the rotator cuff muscle. It is not a rotator cuff muscle it is
one of the muscles that helps with your arm extension and it is very closely related to your lat dorsi it is like the little brother of the lat dorsi, and it is also a muscle that helps keep your humerus steady. So it’s kind of like a stabilizer in a sense.
Now, you wanna know how to stretch first you must know the reason why you’re getting into a certain position and it’s
always better to fall back to your Anatomy.
Looking at the structure looking at where it originated and where it inserts, this is looking at the back of our body, I’m gonna take away some of the muscles so it makes it easier for you to look at the teres major.
First, your deltoid and then your triceps and I want to take
away the traps as well, so here’s your rotator cuff muscles
this your infraspinatus this your teres minor and this your suscapularis. Your supraspinatus now this is your teres major.
When you look at the origin it is actually coming from your scapula and it is actually inserting to the side of your humerus. It is more closely inserting to where the rotator cuff muscles.
Now, you wanna think about pulling this away. One thing is to bring your arm away. When you look at where the lat dorsi muscle is which is this guy it is actually very very close.
If you just want to stretch the teres major and not the lat dorsi and not to get confused you need to get into a certain
position and I am gonna show you next.
So back view again of me now this is where you will feel the stretch okay so you want to be bringing your arms up this is kind of like your tricep stretch but from here you’re gonna be
keeping your pelvis steady, keeping your trunk steady and you want to pull it to the side so if you’re stretching on the right teres major you want to pull towards the left side. You want to hold it there for 30 seconds.
Let me show you from the front view as well. probably steady from steady as much as you can not moving towards and along and then towards the other side okay hold it
for 30 seconds
So you see getting each muscle to stretch you’ve got to look at the anatomy the structure so you always fall back to that because it will make sense to you.
