A client wants to work on chest muscles by using an exercise learned in a group exercise class. While standing and holding 2-lb (1 kg) dumbbells with shoulders abducted and externally rotated and elbows flexed, the client demonstrates the exercise by horizontally adducting and horizontally abducting the shoulders.
What should an ACE certified Personal Trainers response be?
- "This exercise does not activate the pectoralis major muscles."
- "This Is a great exercise tor the pectoralis major and rhomboid muscles Let's include it In your program."
- "This exercise uses the chest, but there are more effective exercises that I can show you."
- "This exercise is contramdicated for everyone because it places the shoulders in abduction and external rotation."
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