Wall Slide

Beginner Body Only Shoulders

Also called wall angels. Sliding your arms up and down a wall trains shoulder mobility and the mid-back muscles that keep your shoulder blades in position.

How to do it

  1. Stand with your back against a wall, feet a few inches away from it, lower back gently touching the wall.
  2. Raise your arms into a goalpost position with the backs of your hands, elbows, and shoulders touching the wall.
  3. Slowly slide your arms up the wall as far as you can without your elbows, wrists, or lower back losing contact.
  4. Slide back down to the goalpost position and repeat with slow, controlled reps.

Exercise profile

Force
Pull
Mechanics
Compound
Laterality
Bilateral
Category
Strength