It's taken a long time, but reaching is starting to get a lot easier for me. For the first time in many years, I'm actually able to lock my elbows out without pain. So now I'm starting to reach from the shoulder and all the upper back muscles are starting to loosen up. The lats, the traps, the rhomboids, all that stuff. It's pretty neat. Sometimes, it seems like you work on certain areas over and over, without much progress, and then all of a sudden, the muscles start to let go. Persistence pays off.