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    Upper cross syndrome involves a rounded upper back caused by muscles on the front of the body becoming tight and overdeveloped from daily activities like driving, working at a computer, and exercise routines that focus on the front of the body like the chest, biceps, and abs. This pulls the shoulder joint out of position and weakens the back muscles, leading to poor posture and decreased performance in exercises like the bench press and overhead presses. Lower cross syndrome has similar causes and effects but involves tight hip flexors and an overextended lower back.

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    Upper cross syndrome involves a rounded upper back caused by muscles on the front of the body becoming tight and overdeveloped from daily activities like driving, working at a computer, and exercise routines that focus on the front of the body like the chest, biceps, and abs. This pulls the shoulder joint out of position and weakens the back muscles, leading to poor posture and decreased performance in exercises like the bench press and overhead presses. Lower cross syndrome has similar causes and effects but involves tight hip flexors and an overextended lower back.

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    Upper cross syndrome involves a rounded upper back caused by muscles on the front of the body becoming tight and overdeveloped from daily activities like driving, working at a computer, and exercise routines that focus on the front of the body like the chest, biceps, and abs. This pulls the shoulder joint out of position and weakens the back muscles, leading to poor posture and decreased performance in exercises like the bench press and overhead presses. Lower cross syndrome has similar causes and effects but involves tight hip flexors and an overextended lower back.

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    pper and Lower Cross Syndromes

    Two of the most common muscle viruses are upper and


    lower cross syndromes.
    Upper cross involves a kyphosis, or rounding of the upper
    back. This is a common result of all
    the driving and working at our computers that we do. It gets
    further exacerbated by a mirror
    driven fitness mentality that encourages us to focus on the
    muscles we see in the mirror –
    chest, bi's, and abs.
    From an over emphasis on the front side of the body, both in
    daily living and in our training,
    these muscles become hypertonic, or tight. The antagonists,
    the muscles on the other side, i.e.
    your back, because they're weaker and underused get
    overstretched. This causes that stoop
    shouldered, rounded back that's so common today.
    Why should you care?
    Well, besides looking bad, upper cross syndrome will affect
    your bench press, your Olympic lifts
    and all overhead pressing. Because the shoulder joint is pulled
    out of your instantaneous axis of

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