25 Jan Smartphone, your best friend! Let’s correct your rounded shoulders with DRAX

Have you ever suddenly felt pain on your neck and shoulders as if there’s a heavy rock weighing on them? And when you look in the mirror, did you also realize your back is bent? Even if you stretch, the discomfort from the pain of your stiff neck and pressing shoulders still remains.

This is a modern chronic disease from people using smartphones and computers for a long time! It’s because of ‘rounded shoulders’.

A modern chronic disease! What are rounded shoulders?

Rounded shoulders describe bent shoulders in which your shoulders have moved forward. It’s caused by poor posture when you’re on the computer, smartphone, or driving for a long time without straightening your spine and usually appears for office workers and students who have a long sitting time.

If you have rounded shoulders, your posture appears bent even when standing still. Here’s how you can check if you have rounded shoulders.

1) When you stand still and relax, the back of your hand is facing forward.
2) When you lie on your back, a hand can fit in the space between your shoulders and the floor.
3) When you lie on the floor or lean against the wall, you can feel your shoulders not reaching the surface.
If you fall into the above situation, you can suspect that you have rounded shoulders.

But did you know that rounded shoulders not only cause problems with your appearance but also shoulder pain, neck disc, and headache? When you have rounded shoulders, your shoulder blades are not in their original position, so when you move, they collide with other bones and joints, causing pain in the shoulder joint. At the same time, since your upper body is bent, your cervical and thoracic spine protrude forward. This can also cause ‘bent back’ and ‘tech neck’ while weakening your back muscles.

Due to these reasons, many experts recommend correcting rounded shoulders as soon as possible.

Rounded shoulders are caused by maintaining a poor posture of bending your back for a long time, making the surrounding muscles stiff, so it’s important to keep a proper posture and stretch whenever you can. If your rounded shoulders have progressed a lot, it’s not easy to recover just by stretching! We’ll introduce you to DRAX exercise equipment and exercise methods that can correct your rounded shoulders to help you create amazing, angled shoulders.

Correct your rounded shoulders by training your shoulder and back muscles with DRAX exercise equipment.

Muscles are one of the causes of rounded shoulders, which refer to stiff shoulder muscles and weakened back muscles. You need to exercise your shoulder and back muscles to maintain a proper posture. In particular, exercising your back deltoid muscles to pull your shoulders and stretch them left and right and your lower trapezius muscle to keep your back straight can help ease the rounded shoulders.

#1 How to straighten your rounded shoulders by developing the deltoid muscles of your back shoulders

Firstly, we recommend ‘Reverse Pec Deck Fly’ for back deltoid muscles. Pec Deck Fly is an equipment that helps develop pectoral and deltoid muscles. You sit on the seat with your back against it and bring your arms together to stimulate your chest and shoulder muscles. For Reverse Pec Deck Fly, you sit with your chest against the seat and push your arms back to stimulate your back shoulder muscles (back deltoid muscles).

Strengthening your back deltoid muscles with the Reverse Pec Deck Fly help straighten your shoulders that are rolled forward.

You can exercise both ways with the DRAX Welliv Pro Pec Deck Fly machine (clockwise and counterclockwise rotational motion), and ergonomic design has been applied throughout the machine to reduce the risk of injury.

‘Face pull’, which can be done using the Chest Weight, is also a great exercise in strengthening the back deltoid muscles. The exercise involves placing a rope on the cable and setting it slightly higher than your head, then pulling the rope to your forehead to stimulate your back deltoid muscles.

DRAX Chest Weight is a versatile machine since you can use its middle handle to do pull-ups and a wide range of exercises with its 14-level position adjustment. The pulling lever’s positioning pin and rotational pulley hand clip are convenient to use and designed for safety.

#2 How to exercise the lower trapezius muscle of your back

Next, let’s build muscles that keep your back strong with lower back exercises.

DRAX Welliv Pro Seated Row is an equipment that develops your back muscles. You place your feet on the footrest and sit on the machine seat, then pull the bars to stimulate your back and develop your muscles. You can stimulate your back muscles in various ways depending on how your hold your grip. If you exercise with DRAX Welliv Pro Seated Row, you will feel the strong weight and stimulation on your target muscles along with DRAX’s technology, which is carefully designed.

DRAX Pure Plate Front Row is also an equipment optimized for developing back muscles. You can adjust the position of the footrest and chest pad, and it’s designed to be more effective in stimulating muscles, so you can exercise your desired area more intensively by varying the width or angle of your hands.

DRAX Pure Plate is an exercise equipment that uses a leverage method combining the advantages of pin-loaded and plate methods, maximizing space efficiency.

Even if it doesn’t seem like a big problem at the moment, an unbalanced body can eventually cause pain. We hope you can correct your body’s balance scientifically with DRAX and stay healthy in the cold winter.