5 Shoulder Exercises To Improve Your Flexibility & Mobility.

We ask a lot from our shoulders, including having the strength and flexibility to reach, lift, hold, carry, press and pull. 

While aches and pains and joint stiffness are all inevitable as we age... 

As women approach menopause, many are often surprised to discover that joint pain is one of the most common symptoms, especially in their shoulders.

How does menopause affect your shoulders?

During menopause, the body’s estrogen levels start declining.

Estrogen not only helps keep your joints healthy & lubricated, but it also reduces inflammatory levels in the body.

However, when estrogen levels drop during menopause, inflammation can increase, and the result can be stiff painful joints, a.k.a Osteoarthritis (OA).

To help you relieve pain and tightness in your shoulders...

We’ve consulted with our physical therapist to bring you these 5 exercises that will help ease to your stiff and painful shoulders! 

So remember to do these daily and we promise you’ll see lesser pain and more movement

Let’s get into it:

Exercise #1: Across-the-chest stretch

This exercise helps increase flexibility and range of motion in your shoulder joint and the surrounding muscles. When doing this exercise, lower your arm if you feel any pain in your shoulder.

• Bring your right arm across your chest.
  
  
• Place it in the crease of your left elbow or use your left hand to support your arm.
  
  
• Hold this position for up to 1 minute.
  
  
• Repeat on the opposite side.
  
  
• Do each side 3–5 times.

Exercise #2: Neck release 

This exercise is a gentle way to loosen tension in your neck and shoulders.

• Lower your chin toward your chest. You’ll feel a stretch along the back of your neck.
  
  
• Gently tilt your head to the left to stretch your right shoulder.
  
  
• Hold this position for up to 1 minute.
  
  
• Repeat on the opposite side.
  
  
• Do each side 3–5 times.

Exercise #3: Chest expansion

This exercise promotes flexibility and range of motion in your shoulders.

• While standing, hold an exercise band, strap, or towel behind your back with both hands.
  
  
• Broaden across your chest as you move your shoulder blades toward each other.
  
  
• Lift your chin and look up toward the ceiling.
  
  
• Hold for up to 30 seconds.
  
  
• Repeat 3–5 times.

Exercise #4: Shoulder Circles

This exercise is good for warming up your shoulder joints and increasing flexibility.

• Stand with your left hand on the back of a chair.
  
  
• Allow your right hand to hang down.
  
  
• Circle your right hand 5 times in each direction.
  
  
• Repeat on the opposite side.
  
  
• Do this 2–3 times per day.

Exercise #5: Doorway Shoulder Stretch

This stretch opens your chest and strengthens your shoulders.

• Stand in a doorway with your elbows and arms forming a 90-degree angle.
  
  
• Step your right foot forward as you press your palms into the sides of the door frame.
  
  
• Lean forward and engage your core. Hold this position for up to 30 seconds.
  
  
• Repeat the stretch with your left foot forward.
  
  
• Do each side 2–3 times.

PS: These shoulder stretches & exercises do wonders in helping you regain motion and relieving shoulder pain.

However, if you want the pain to go away totally, we recommend trying our Slim Gut Bundle along with these exercises:

Introducing the Slim Gut Bundle!

The Slim Gut Bundle — contains 2 of our most popular supplements (Provitalize + Previtalize) specially formulated to help women:

• Replenish hormonal levels
• Soothe joint pains
• Reduce inflammation
• Shed unwanted weight
• Maintain a healthy gut
• Keeping menopausal symptoms at bay

Contains 3 natural phytoestrogenic herbs — Moringa, Yellow turmeric (curcumin) and Curry Leaf, each of them rich in phytoestrogens that helps replenish the body’s hormones naturally, keeping inflammation down and joints lubricated...

Contains 3 thermogenic probiotic strains — L.Gasseri, B.Breve and B.Lactis, each of them not only capable of boosting your metabolism & calorie burn-rate, but also have a beneficial impact on inflammation.

Contains 5 effective and natural prebiotics — including Burdock Root, a prebiotic that not only boosts the performance of probiotics, but is also studied to reduce inflammatory markers in the blood of patients with osteoarthritis.

Here’s where the magic happens

With the ingredients we’ve chosen for the Slim Gut Bundle, the herbs included will not only help replenish hormonal levels, keeping joints lubricated...

But also, the probiotic + prebiotic combo not only helps boost the benefits provided by the probiotics, giving faster and better weight results, but also helps lower inflammation levels naturally, keeping arthritic pain at bay.

This makes the Slim Gut Bundlea must-have for any woman looking to soothe their menopausal joint pains, as well as shed any unwanted weight they might have gained when they were inactive.

Don’t believe us?

Check out what our lovely customers have to say about how the Slim Gut bundle helped them with their arthritis: