Shoulder Circles

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Shoulder Circles — start position
Start
Shoulder Circles — finish position
Finish
Muscles worked
PrimaryShoulders
SecondaryTraps

How to do it

  1. 01

    With shoulders relaxed and arms resting loosely at your sides (or in your lap if you're seated), gently roll your shoulders forward, up, back, and down.

  2. 02

    Reverse direction. You can do this exercise alternating shoulders or both at the same time.

In the app

Shoulder Circles appears when you own the kit it needs 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 the kit it needs

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

With bodyweight

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