Neck, shoulders and upper back, 8: Engaging the muscles of the upper back

by josefine | Jun 8, 2025

A Micro Pause where we begin to look into reprogramming of the way your nervous system recruits motor units. Here we work in engaging the back muscles instead of the neck muscles to move the arms. The trapezius muscles are large muscles on the upper back. They connect to the upper arm bone and to the spine in the neck and the upper back. They are usually divided into upper, middle and lower parts. The upper trapezius are the ones you can feel on the top of your shoulders. Yes, the ones that often gets a bit tense and sore. Why is that so? One explanation is that these muscles takes the load of moving your arms when instead muscles on the back should help out in making movements with the arms. In this lesson you get to experience how it feels to activate the muscles on the upper back.

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