{"id":1683,"date":"2013-04-24T18:07:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T01:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.brianschiff.com\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2013-04-24T18:09:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T01:09:56","slug":"pectoralis-soft-tissue-mobility-exercises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.brianschiff.com\/?p=1683","title":{"rendered":"Pectoralis Soft Tissue Mobility Exercises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people struggle with faulty posture (forward head and rounded shoulders). \u00a0Tightness in the pec major or pec minor can negatively affect the body. \u00a0Often, the throwers I see suffer from tightness in this region. \u00a0Any overhead athlete can be affected as well as the person who sits and types all day long in the office.<\/p>\n<p>The video below reveals how to use a trigger point ball and block to work on soft tissue tightness. \u00a0I like the TP ball and baller block from Trigger Point for this exercise sequence.  <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZQWBLzC2vQQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For more information on this technique and its application, <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/ZDxvsp\" target=\"_blank\">click here to read my online column for PFP magazine<\/a>.  Note: the final &#8220;W&#8221; motion in the video is not described in the column article, but it is another option that can be included.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people struggle with faulty posture (forward head and rounded shoulders). \u00a0Tightness in the pec major or pec minor can negatively affect the body. \u00a0Often, the throwers I see suffer from tightness in this region. \u00a0Any overhead athlete can be affected as well as the person who sits and types all day long in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,4,7,36],"tags":[51,299,21],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flexibility","category-health","category-injury-prevention","category-shoulder","tag-impingement","tag-pec-stretching","tag-shoulder-pain"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pectoralis Soft Tissue Mobility Exercises - Brian Schiff&#039;s Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.brianschiff.com\/?p=1683\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pectoralis Soft Tissue Mobility Exercises - Brian Schiff&#039;s Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Many people struggle with faulty posture (forward head and rounded shoulders). \u00a0Tightness in the pec major or pec minor can negatively affect the body. \u00a0Often, the throwers I see suffer from tightness in this region. \u00a0Any overhead athlete can be affected as well as the person who sits and types all day long in the [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blog.brianschiff.com\/?p=1683\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Brian Schiff&#039;s Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-04-25T01:07:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-04-25T01:09:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Brian Schiff\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Brian Schiff\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.brianschiff.com\/?p=1683\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.brianschiff.com\/?p=1683\",\"name\":\"Pectoralis Soft Tissue Mobility Exercises - Brian Schiff's Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.brianschiff.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2013-04-25T01:07:28+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-04-25T01:09:56+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.brianschiff.com\/#\/schema\/person\/d7ecfca77bb5641821016294c8190473\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.brianschiff.com\/?p=1683#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/blog.brianschiff.com\/?p=1683\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.brianschiff.com\/?p=1683#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/blog.brianschiff.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Pectoralis Soft Tissue Mobility Exercises\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.brianschiff.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.brianschiff.com\/\",\"name\":\"Brian Schiff's Blog\",\"description\":\"Injury Prevention, Sports Rehab &amp; 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