Broom Twists great for P.E

Another great no brainer exercise to loosen up tight back muscles and bring in flared ribs , is by doing simple broom twists everyday.

Just get a broom or long stick , curtain rod or whatever u have lying around and rest it behind your neck and grab the stick at shoulder width and then proceed to look straight forward while you twist at the trunk. Take it easy and gradually work your way to twisting more and more as you get more comfortable with the exercise.

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Weighted Exercise to improve P.E

I know there is a lot of misconception when it comes to using weighted exercises to improve your P.E as yes we all know there is no actual muscle around your sternum that actually be built up enough to cover your sunken chest. Unless you plan on building godly pecs but this could take a long time or forever for those of us with less than godly genetics.

There are exercises using weights that can help push out the sternum and helpto expand your rib cage and the most important of them is the Dumbell pullover, even arnold does them it can give your chest a larger appearance aswell as pushing out that sternum.

and ofcourse any sort of posture exercise will help , even if you just stand straight for 5 - 10 minutes a day and breath in and out deeply you will start to feeel your chest pushing out. Go get you p.e people until next time, even though i doubt anyone reads this

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Deep breathing & Yoga

Hello all.

I recently downloaded a great PDF on yoga and its benefits for people with pectus excavatum from pectuslist.com, and have been doing the stretches now and I can definitely feel my tight back muscles due to my P.E loosening up.

I have also started doing the deep breathing exercises, to help expand my ribcage and push out the sternum. Its a strange sensation having P.E and doing deep breathing as I can pretty much see my heart pulsating under a thing layer of skin , pushing up and down on my sternum as it pump ( not in a painful way though) 

My deep breathing consists of me maintaing good posture then breathing in deeply and slowly until totally full , holding my breath for 6-10 second then exhaling slowly remaining upright with good posture. 

Also a great exercise for those with flared ribs that you could try out , get a back brace and wrap it around your core , around the ribs. Then jump on a flat bench or bed and do some dumbell flys, This work well as the ribs try and flare out as you do this exercise and the brace guides them into the correct position.

Until next time my fellow P.E people