Scapular Depression with Alternating Tricep Extension

The tricep is an often overlooked shoulder extensor that is important for supporting scapular position. The movement demonstrated in this video trains the triceps as a shoulder and elbow extensor but more importantly also challenges the muscles that create and maintain scapular depression. Therefore, this exercise has little to do strengthen a specific muscle but instead focus on stabilizing a position. In this process muscles do get strengthened but not in isolation, instead in a manner that is valuable to postural function and can be transferrable to other tasks where anti-forward shoulder posture is desirable.