The collar bone will move forward as the arm reaches forward. The collar bone moves back as the arm reaches back. Sounds easy enough but here’s the important part: your brain provides you with a sense of movement that is an average of what’s moving. So, you may think all sections of your collar bone (represented in a hot dog in 1/3 pieces) are moving. If you can shrink your attention on this bone to each 1/3 of it at a time, you may find out that not all sections can move freely.
Here you will be paying attention to just the movement forward and backward. Locate each 1/3 section. Investigate the position. Do you feel the 1/3 segment closest to your breastbone being positioned forward backwards or in the middle?
These exercises are called PURE for position understood-refined exercise. Once you locate a section that is not resting in a middle position, or that is not moving well into forward or back, you can begin to focus your attention on the muscle control that will refine and restore the missing motion. Then, overall, this area will perform better for you. Whether it’s simply creating an option for better posture or for arm movements, all sections of your hot dog need to move in forward or backward rotation, and rest in the middle.
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