A healthy body is often described as a well-oiled machine. Like a machine, it’s made up of otherwise fixed segments given mobility by joints. A kinetic chain is the notion that these joints and ...

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There are lots of ways to classify the exercises that make up your workouts, and if you spend any time around the weight rack, you’ll undoubtedly encounter the most common one: joint involvement.

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Objective First, to look for appropriate closed kinetic chain exercises to restore intramuscular imbalance between upper trapezius (UT) and serratus anterior (SA) in overhead athletes. Second, to ...

If you have been strength training you have been performing either open chain exercises or closed chain exercises. They both offer advantages and unless you have some joint issues you probably need to ...