189/365 Ice Scraping is a Two-fer Exercise

Friends and Fitness Enthusiasts,

Scraping ice off your car is just an excuse to get a shoulder girdle and a shoulder joint work out; at least that's how I'm going to think about it now.

A couple different muscles are involved when you scrape ice off your windshield. Your shoulder retracts to increase the area that you can scrape and protracts to scrape it. Your shoulder is also abducting to reach up to the windshield and horizontally adducting to scrape. Basically, scraping ice works lots of muscles in your shoulder girdle and joint.

To mimic this at the gym, you can use a cable while standing upright. Wait Lauren, isn't this like a bench press move? Yes, but, you are still working your shoulder because your pectoralis muscles are shoulder joint and girdle muscles! Neat!

In health,

Lauren