Rhomboids-SMR

Mid backFoam rollerIntermediate
Rhomboids-SMR — start position
Start
Rhomboids-SMR — finish position
Finish
Muscles worked
PrimaryMid back
SecondaryTraps

How to do it

  1. 01

    Lay down with your back on the floor. Place a foam roll underneath your upper back, and cross your arms in front of you, protracting your shoulders. This will be your starting position.

  2. 02

    Raise your hips off of the ground, placing your weight onto the foam roll. Shift your weight to one side at a time, rolling over your middle and upper back. Pause at points of tension for 10-30 seconds.

In the app

Rhomboids-SMR appears when you own a foam roller and the day's window has room for it. Its minutes come from Rule 2 (Sessions are built to fit, never guaranteed, graded product): the window sets how long it runs, never the other way round.

If a machine is taken the engine swaps a same-pattern movement and says why.

If you don't have a foam roller

Same movement pattern, same primary muscles — swap by what you have.

With bodyweight

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