Tsunayoshi's Journal: Great exercise

I found a killer exercise for that muscle (not sure if it has a unique name) in the center of your back where your lower traps meet your lats. Unfortunately it is a highly seasonable exercise depending on where you live.

Shoveling snow.

After spending about 2 hours digging a 1 car wide channel down my sloped driveway, I can say that this muscle is the one most used. At first I was killing my lower back, so I sort of set up into a modifed horse stance, if you are familiar with traditional martial arts, to prevent me from bending over the wrong way. Was much easier to work that way and didn't strain my back at all.

Rhomboids?

[Some Woman]

Or maybe those are higher up.

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[Tsunayoshi]

Thanks! I knew there was a name for those. I google imaged a couple of muscle charts but none of them had that area labeled.

That's the one!

[HomelessInLaJolla]

That's the muscle which absorbs all of the stress from springboard diving. After several years in high school and college competition I was forced to resign because that muscle had practically fused itself in place.