Groupme Data Export

 How to export Groupme Data and parse it as needed

Once this zip file is downloaded, extract it

Right click in the windows explorer window and click "open in terminal"

Go to this GitHub repo and copy/paste the function code into the terminal and hit enter

https://github.com/Quazmoz/Homelab/blob/main/PowerShell/Get-GroupMeMessages.ps1

Copy the filepath and then set the Variable in the PowerShell session like so:

$Filepath = "/path/you/copied/message.json"

Run this command:

Get-GroupMeMessages -FilePath $FilePath

This will place a txt file in the same directory that you opened the terminal in

Manjaro Plasma Remmina Remote Desktop Bug Fonts Not Showing

 https://gitlab.com/Remmina/Remmina/-/issues/1683

Try rebooting first and if that doesn't work run this (with caution)

rm -rf ~/.cache/fontconfig
sudo fc-cache -r -v

Manjaro Plasma Intellij Ultimate/DataGrip Passwords not Caching Properly Bug Fix

Passwords may fail to save in the native Linux keychain and you will be prompted to enter your git password for Intellij Ultimate and DataGrip. One workaround is to store passwords inside KeePass instead

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/reference-ide-settings-password-safe.html

Privacy Policy - Google Play

 

This Application collects some Personal Data from its Users.

This document can be printed for reference by using the print command in the settings of any browser.

Owner and Data Controller

Quinn Favo
New Windsor NY 12553

Owner contact email: quazmoz@vivaldi.net

Types of Data collected

Among the types of Personal Data that this Application collects, by itself or through third parties, there are: Heart Rate Monitor File permission; Approximate location permission (continuous).

Complete details on each type of Personal Data collected are provided in the dedicated sections of this privacy policy or by specific explanation texts displayed prior to the Data collection.
Personal Data may be freely provided by the User, or, in case of Usage Data, collected automatically when using this Application.
Unless specified otherwise, all Data requested by this Application is mandatory and failure to provide this Data may make it impossible for this Application to provide its services. In cases where this Application specifically states that some Data is not mandatory, Users are free not to communicate this Data without consequences to the availability or the functioning of the Service.
Users who are uncertain about which Personal Data is mandatory are welcome to contact the Owner.
Any use of Cookies – or of other tracking tools – by this Application or by the owners of third-party services used by this Application serves the purpose of providing the Service required by the User, in addition to any other purposes described in the present document and in the Cookie Policy, if available.

Users are responsible for any third-party Personal Data obtained, published or shared through this Application and confirm that they have the third party's consent to provide the Data to the Owner.

Mode and place of processing the Data

Methods of processing

The Owner takes appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, or unauthorized destruction of the Data.
The Data processing is carried out using computers and/or IT enabled tools, following organizational procedures and modes strictly related to the purposes indicated. In addition to the Owner, in some cases, the Data may be accessible to certain types of persons in charge, involved with the operation of this Application (administration, sales, marketing, legal, system administration) or external parties (such as third-party technical service providers, mail carriers, hosting providers, IT companies, communications agencies) appointed, if necessary, as Data Processors by the Owner. The updated list of these parties may be requested from the Owner at any time.

Legal basis of processing

The Owner may process Personal Data relating to Users if one of the following applies:

• Users have given their consent for one or more specific purposes. Note: Under some legislations the Owner may be allowed to process Personal Data until the User objects to such processing (“opt-out”), without having to rely on consent or any other of the following legal bases. This, however, does not apply, whenever the processing of Personal Data is subject to European data protection law;
• provision of Data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with the User and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof;
• processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Owner is subject;
• processing is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the Owner;
• processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner or by a third party.

In any case, the Owner will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of Personal Data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.

Place

The Data is processed at the Owner's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located.

Depending on the User's location, data transfers may involve transferring the User's Data to a country other than their own. To find out more about the place of processing of such transferred Data, Users can check the section containing details about the processing of Personal Data.

Users are also entitled to learn about the legal basis of Data transfers to a country outside the European Union or to any international organization governed by public international law or set up by two or more countries, such as the UN, and about the security measures taken by the Owner to safeguard their Data.

If any such transfer takes place, Users can find out more by checking the relevant sections of this document or inquire with the Owner using the information provided in the contact section.

Retention time

Personal Data shall be processed and stored for as long as required by the purpose they have been collected for.

Therefore:

• Personal Data collected for purposes related to the performance of a contract between the Owner and the User shall be retained until such contract has been fully performed.
• Personal Data collected for the purposes of the Owner’s legitimate interests shall be retained as long as needed to fulfill such purposes. Users may find specific information regarding the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner within the relevant sections of this document or by contacting the Owner.

The Owner may be allowed to retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever the User has given consent to such processing, as long as such consent is not withdrawn. Furthermore, the Owner may be obliged to retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever required to do so for the performance of a legal obligation or upon order of an authority.

Once the retention period expires, Personal Data shall be deleted. Therefore, the right of access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification and the right to data portability cannot be enforced after expiration of the retention period.

The purposes of processing

The Data concerning the User is collected to allow the Owner to provide its Service, comply with its legal obligations, respond to enforcement requests, protect its rights and interests (or those of its Users or third parties), detect any malicious or fraudulent activity, as well as the following: Device permissions for Personal Data access, Analytics, Registration and authentication, Access to third-party accounts, Registration and authentication provided directly by this Application and Advertising.

For specific information about the Personal Data used for each purpose, the User may refer to the section “Detailed information on the processing of Personal Data”.

Device permissions for Personal Data access

Depending on the User's specific device, this Application may request certain permissions that allow it to access the User's device Data as described below.

By default, these permissions must be granted by the User before the respective information can be accessed. Once the permission has been given, it can be revoked by the User at any time. In order to revoke these permissions, Users may refer to the device settings or contact the Owner for support at the contact details provided in the present document.
The exact procedure for controlling app permissions may be dependent on the User's device and software.

Please note that the revoking of such permissions might impact the proper functioning of this Application.

If User grants any of the permissions listed below, the respective Personal Data may be processed (i.e accessed to, modified or removed) by this Application.

Approximate location permission (continuous)

Used for accessing the User's approximate device location. This Application may collect, use, and share User location Data in order to provide location-based services.

File access permission

Used for loading custom icons.

Heart Rate Monitor permission

Used for loading HR data.

Information on opting out of interest-based advertising

In addition to any opt-out feature provided by any of the services listed in this document, Users may follow the instructions provided by YourOnlineChoices (EU), the Network Advertising Initiative (US) and the Digital Advertising Alliance (US), DAAC (Canada), DDAI (Japan) or other similar initiatives. Such initiatives allow Users to select their tracking preferences for most of the advertising tools. The Owner thus recommends that Users make use of these resources in addition to the information provided in this document.

The Digital Advertising Alliance offers an application called AppChoices that helps Users to control interest-based advertising on mobile apps.

Users may also opt-out of certain advertising features through applicable device settings, such as the device advertising settings for mobile phones or ads settings in general.

The rights of Users

Users may exercise certain rights regarding their Data processed by the Owner.

In particular, Users have the right to do the following:

• Withdraw their consent at any time. Users have the right to withdraw consent where they have previously given their consent to the processing of their Personal Data.
• Object to processing of their Data. Users have the right to object to the processing of their Data if the processing is carried out on a legal basis other than consent. Further details are provided in the dedicated section below.
• Access their Data. Users have the right to learn if Data is being processed by the Owner, obtain disclosure regarding certain aspects of the processing and obtain a copy of the Data undergoing processing.
• Verify and seek rectification. Users have the right to verify the accuracy of their Data and ask for it to be updated or corrected.
• Restrict the processing of their Data. Users have the right, under certain circumstances, to restrict the processing of their Data. In this case, the Owner will not process their Data for any purpose other than storing it.
• Have their Personal Data deleted or otherwise removed. Users have the right, under certain circumstances, to obtain the erasure of their Data from the Owner.
• Receive their Data and have it transferred to another controller. Users have the right to receive their Data in a structured, commonly used and machine readable format and, if technically feasible, to have it transmitted to another controller without any hindrance. This provision is applicable provided that the Data is processed by automated means and that the processing is based on the User's consent, on a contract which the User is part of or on pre-contractual obligations thereof.
• Lodge a complaint. Users have the right to bring a claim before their competent data protection authority.

Details about the right to object to processing

Where Personal Data is processed for a public interest, in the exercise of an official authority vested in the Owner or for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner, Users may object to such processing by providing a ground related to their particular situation to justify the objection.

Users must know that, however, should their Personal Data be processed for direct marketing purposes, they can object to that processing at any time without providing any justification. To learn, whether the Owner is processing Personal Data for direct marketing purposes, Users may refer to the relevant sections of this document.

How to exercise these rights

Any requests to exercise User rights can be directed to the Owner through the contact details provided in this document. These requests can be exercised free of charge and will be addressed by the Owner as early as possible and always within one month.

Additional information about Data collection and processing

Legal action

The User's Personal Data may be used for legal purposes by the Owner in Court or in the stages leading to possible legal action arising from improper use of this Application or the related Services.
The User declares to be aware that the Owner may be required to reveal personal data upon request of public authorities.

Additional information about User's Personal Data

In addition to the information contained in this privacy policy, this Application may provide the User with additional and contextual information concerning particular Services or the collection and processing of Personal Data upon request.

System logs and maintenance

For operation and maintenance purposes, this Application and any third-party services may collect files that record interaction with this Application (System logs) use other Personal Data (such as the IP Address) for this purpose.

Information not contained in this policy

More details concerning the collection or processing of Personal Data may be requested from the Owner at any time. Please see the contact information at the beginning of this document.

How “Do Not Track” requests are handled

This Application does not support “Do Not Track” requests.
To determine whether any of the third-party services it uses honor the “Do Not Track” requests, please read their privacy policies.

Changes to this privacy policy

The Owner reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time by notifying its Users on this page and possibly within this Application and/or - as far as technically and legally feasible - sending a notice to Users via any contact information available to the Owner. It is strongly recommended to check this page often, referring to the date of the last modification listed at the bottom.

Should the changes affect processing activities performed on the basis of the User’s consent, the Owner shall collect new consent from the User, where required.

Latest update: March 10, 2022

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NextCloud Deployed in Homelab

 

Following this post, I was able to get Nextcloud running with a LAMP stack on Ubuntu 20.04.

I had to make a few tweaks to fit the configuration to my environment. Even though I am running it on a low-powered box, it has no trouble with concurrent uploads/downloads. The bottleneck is the network as expected.

The mobile UI is faster than the desktop however my cellphone connection is weaker, hence the slower upload speed. Finding what you are looking for is intuitive and everything works as expected.

With a normal connection speed, uploads proceeded at the expected rate.

My initial impressions of Nextcloud are positive and I would recommend it for a homelab or potentially a backup/special use case system in an enterprise environment. It is useful for simple file transfers and the collaboration tools seem promising. https configuration using Letsencrypt is simple and provides sufficient privacy.

Penetration Testing My Home Network

I have a basic router for my home network: https://www.wavlink.com/en_us/product/WL-WN530HG4.html

The builtin management tools are surprisingly sufficient, I am able to configure DDNS, DMZ, Port forwarding, and automatic wifi channel switching.

I disabled WAN access to ping and to the management page which is clearly working well when I attempted accessing it from a hotspot on my Parrot OS laptop. (learn more about ParrotOS here)

Both the DDNS address and direct IP wouldn't allow any attacks from OWASP ZAP to get through:

Even the test I ran from internal (the router sees it as LAN even though I access it via WAN at quazmoz.hopto.org) didn't have many vulnerabilities and none of them were critical. However, I was a little bummed to see the vulnerability for clickjacking...

So far so good on the pen-test. Next up is to see how it handles direct attacks against the VPN and NextCloud

UrBackup - Open-Source Backup Server

Today I managed to get my UrBackup server running fairly quickly. Linux has a small error with con files but everything else seems to be working fine. You can find the downloads and guides here: https://www.urbackup.org

In my experience, this server works well and is reliable despite being free. I have implemented it successfully both in an enterprise and homelab.

It allows backup of specific files, drives, as well as scheduling. The server has a good variety of settings that you would expect for a backup server, including AD integration and backing up over the internet.

My next project will be to see how this works using OpenVPN and going directly over the internet.

Jenkins and DDNS OpenVPN

Jenkins is configured with BlueOcean and OpenVPN is now set to use quazmoz.hoptoo.org which is a free DDNS service from noip.com. My router is set to push changes to my public IP to noip.

OpenVPN and Docker

The small server now has docker installed along with OpenVPN and Samba.

XRDP for the homelab

I wiped my Ubuntu server and installed xrdp which is working far better than guacamole. I believe there may be some bugs with the guac install for Ubuntu 20.04

Homelab

I set up my first homelab(took me long enough) using a mini-pc I bought off of Amazon. So far I have guacamole configured:





Aside from one tweak to the guide (run "enable" command first)


systemctl start guacd
systemctl enable guacd


It installed smoothly and works ok, I will probably install another solution however. It frequently disconnects and I haven't been able to determine why.

My next step is to mess around with VM solutions for Linux and possibly a VPN linux server.

Mini-PC from Amazon

How to add users to a Distribution List using Powershell

#Get all the names from an email or other list you have generated

#Text file must be manipulated first to contain only the name and email of each user.

#This can be accomplished by pasting all the names/emails into notepad, find and replace ; with , then save as csv.

#Open this csv with excel, copy/paste with transpose option then copy/paste into notepad and save as .txt

#Run the below on the .txt

$Users = Get-Content 'C:\Users\QMFAVO\Desktop\users.txt'

$Users  -replace " <.*", "," | Out-File C:\Users\QMFAVO\Desktop\usersreadytoadd.csv

#Type "name," to the beginning of the file and save

#Copy/paste csv onto server

#Then run the below on the exchange server

$usersreadytoadd = Import-Csv 'C:\Users\QMFAVO\Desktop\usersreadytoadd.csv'

foreach ($User in $usersreadytoadd)

{

    Add-DistributionGroupMember -Identity "DistributionList@contoso.com" -Member "$($User.name.substring(1))"

}

#get rid of '

$Users = Get-Content 'C:\Users\QMFAVO\Desktop\usersreadytoadd.csv'

$Users  -replace "'", "" | Out-File C:\Users\QMFAVO\Desktop\usersreadytoadd.csv

#get rid of commas

$Users = Get-Content 'C:\Users\QMFAVO\Desktop\usersreadytoadd.csv'

$Users  -replace ",", "" | Out-File C:\Users\QMFAVO\Desktop\usersreadytoadd.csv

#usersreadytoadd.csv should have only Names in this format without quotes "John Smith"

Setting Windows 10 Taskbar Clock to Display Hours, Minutes, and Seconds Using Powershell

It is not possible currently to set the clock on your Windows 10 taskbar using control panel settings to display seconds along with the hour and minute. However there is a way to do it using Powershell:

New-PSDrive HKU Registry HKEY_CURRENT_USER

$registryPath = "HKU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced"

$Name = "ShowSecondsInSystemClock"

$value = "1"

New-ItemProperty -Path $registryPath -Name $name -Value $value -PropertyType DWORD -Force

Tizen Studio - Importing a project from another computer or from Github

Tizen studio can be a bit confusing so I have made a quick guide to importing your project into Tizen studio from a download from Github or another git repo.

File > Import

Select Tizen/Tizen Project

Select Archive file

Find your .wgt file and select it

Click finish

GUI vs CLI (Graphical User Interface vs Command Line Interface)

Sometimes it is better to use the CLI to make changes to users. Some common use cases are AD, Exchange, and on-prem Skype for business.

Shared email accounts in exchange do not show the Send-on-behalf permission within the ECP GUI, however this property still exists and can cause problems for users trying to send on behalf of a shared email account.

Set-Mailbox "SharedMailbox" -GrantSendOnBehalfTo @{add="Mailbox_needing_permission"}

Sometimes in Skype for business, the GUI will not successfully apply changes. Sometimes this is due to AD accounts

not having security settings inheritance turned on. If you run a command like the below, it should have no issue applying the settings:

Enable-csuser -Identity contoso\user -Sipaddress SIP:desired_sip_address@contoso.com -RegistrarPool skype-pool-name

A new sequence of posts

It has been quite some time since I last posted. I will be switching over to tech-related topics from now on in my spare time.

Feel free to comment with any questions or suggestions.

Below is a script that I use to process terminations based on how the auto-emailed notifications come into my inbox:

#***This must be run with outlook closed***

#This script can be modified to filter emails and write their contents to a .txt file

#This script is in two sections

#Parameters

#This is the email account you are trying to search within

$Account = "quinn.favo@contoso.com"

#This is the email folder to search

$Folder = "Inbox"

#Variable used to search the body of emails, enter as a string whatever phrase of text you are looking for, the asterisks should be present at the beginning and end of the string

$BodySearch = "*Account Termination Request*"

#Counter for how many emails were received that match the above parameters, this will be printed at the end of the script to verify success and how many emails were committed to the .txt file

$EmailCheck = 0

#This assigns the path of your current desktop to a variable to be used later

$DesktopPath = [Environment]::GetFolderPath("Desktop")

#Create outlook COM object to search folders

$Outlook = New-Object -ComObject Outlook.Application

$OutlookNS = $Outlook.GetNamespace("MAPI")

#Get all emails from specific account and folder

$AllEmails = $OutlookNS.Folders.Item($Account).Folders.Item($Folder).Items

#Filter emails based on the previously specified string in #Bodysearch

$ReportsEmails = $AllEmails | Where-Object { ($_.HTMLBody -like $BodySearch)}

#Count number of emails that contain the string specified in #Bodysearch

$ReportsEmails | ForEach-Object {$EmailCheck = $EmailCheck + 1}

#Display number of emails found

Write-Output $EmailCheck

#Write the contents of the body from each email to a txt on the desktop

$ReportsEmails.Body | Out-File $DesktopPath\emails.txt

#Quit Outlook COM Object

$Outlook.Quit()

#Kill Outlook after finishing script(allows you to open outlook again)

Stop-Process -Name "OUTLOOK" -Force

#Run the below in the second step

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

#Exchange CLI

#Save the emails.txt file to the exchange desktop

#Run the below on exchange server with AD module installed

#Grab desktop path

$DesktopPath = [Environment]::GetFolderPath("Desktop")

$EnableUsers = Get-Content $DesktopPath\emails.txt | Where-Object { $_.Contains("UserID:") }

Write-Output $EnableUsers

$Manager = Get-Content $DesktopPath\emails.txt | Where-Object { $_.Contains("@contoso.COM") }

Write-Output $Manager

$Ticket = Get-Content $DesktopPath\emails.txt | Where-Object { $_.Contains("19") }

Write-Output $Ticket

$Date = Get-Date

$i = 0

#Iterate through users pulled from ticket notification emails

#This will get the name of the user in each email and assign it to the variable $TermUsers

$TermUsers = Get-Content $DesktopPath\emails.txt | Where-Object { $_.Contains("UserID:") }

Write-Output $TermUsers

#This will get the name of the user's manager and assign it to the $Manager variable

$Manager = Get-Content $DesktopPath\emails.txt | Where-Object { $_.Contains("@contoso.COM") }

Write-Output $Manager

#This will get the ticket# starting with 19(or whatever number you specify) and assign it to $Ticket

$Ticket = Get-Content $DesktopPath\emails.txt | Where-Object { $_.Contains("19") }

Write-Output $Ticket

$Date = Get-Date

$i = 0

#Iterate through users pulled from ticket notification emails

ForEach ($UserID in $TermUsers) {

    $Var = 5

    Write-Output $UserID.substring(9)

    $Var = Get-ADUser $UserID.substring(9) -Properties *

    #Check if AD user exists

    If ($Var -ne 5) {

        #If enabled - disable account, modify description, forward email, and hide from Address Book

        If ($Var.Enabled = "True") {

            $Tick = $Ticket[$i]

            $Man = $Manager[$i]

            $Man = $Man.Substring(1)

            Set-ADUser $Var -Description "$($Var.Description) Quinn Favo disabled $Date ticket# $Tick" -Enabled $False

            #-DeliverToMailboxAndForward is set to $False because setting it to true will cause delivery to the forwarding mailbox as well as the original mailbox

            Set-Mailbox -Identity $Var.Name -HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled $true -DeliverToMailboxAndForward $False -ForwardingAddress $Man

        }

        #Disabled, move on to next account

        Else {

            Write-Output "$UserID is already disabled"

        }

    }

    #If doesn't exist in AD, display output

    Else {

        Write-Output "User does not exist"

    }

    $i ++

}

Unorthodox Post

I have been putting off posting a link to a review of ellipticals that Lauren sent me over two months ago due to a plethora of changes in my life. The below links are well worth checking out:

reviews.com 

Elliptical Review

Rather than following my initial plan of delving into research articles about winter blues, vitamin D, and how to maintain an exercise regime during the winter months, this post will serve as a basic update on the future of my blog and a few things going on in my life. I tend not to share personal experiences that can't be easily applied towards incorporating benefits for my readers, but I hope that you are able to take something from the brief summary of the past few months of my life.

Before I get into that I want to comment on the layout and design of the above site. It is streamlined and serves to provide succinct and useful information in a usable format. Page loading speed is good and image formatting fits into the design. I like the use of gif images to display the ellipticals actually being used. Reviews.com has a lot of useful info on a wide range of topics that is worth a read.

Back in November, I changed my career from Health and Wellness (which is what my college degrees is based around) to a career in IT. While this was a big change, I have had multiple opportunities to gain experience in this field as well. I immediately started with a company in Pittsburgh working in a basic call center with a focus on ELDs (Electronic Logging Devices). Within a few months I was thankful to receive a promotion to IT support specialist and have been enjoying the new areas that I have my hands in.

I have been working towards eliminating all sources of added sugar in my diet without breaking the bank. The biggest struggle has been finding time to cook the healthy foods that I need to be eating. Gluten and dairy are completely out of my diet(aside from the occasional cheese splurge). I am on a spicy food kick and have been crushing taquitos, blazing doritos, and any type of hot sauce. Energy drinks continue to be my crutch but I have eliminated sugar sweetened versions.

Exercise has taken a backseat to nutrition and I am grateful if I am able to get to the gym 3 tmes a week at a meager 30mins per session. The nice part about this is that every workout is different and I am sore every time (I tend not to plan my workouts and just do exercises based of what body part feels like it is lagging).

Things have been busy to say the least but I do intend to continue posting health related content whenever I have the chance. I will update the exercise generator with new exercises as I find the time and hope that everyone is able to continue along their journey to optimal health!

Maple Holistics - Tea Tree Oil Shampoo

 Tea Tree Oil Shampoo

Maple Holistics sent me a free sample of their Tea Tree Oil Shampoo!

Sign up for a free sample here: MapleHolistics

I normally do not use normal shampoo because of the chemistry lab list of ingredients in them but this shampoo breaks the norm. While it does have a lot of ingredients, the ones it has are safe and beneficial. Jojoba oil is similar in composition to sebum. Argan oil has been shown to have beneficial effects on cosmetic and overall health.

The smell from this shampoo is exceptional. It lingered in the bathroom for 10minutes after using it. I would describe it as the smell of an herb garden in the spring.

I have a unique form of dandruff that has not been solved by other products. This post will be updated after a week of using this product to see if it helps.

*** Update as of 12/12/17
My Dandruff has improved significantly. I have enjoyed using this product and can suggest it as a natural remedy for dandruff. I will continue to use it for the next month and see how much it improves.

Tea Tree Oil

Argan Oil

Jojoba Oil
Image provided by: jojobanaturals.com

General Workout

Torso Rotations

Warm up with some torso rotations and your choice of one other exercise from here

Hip thrusts with a ball

Neutral arm shoulder press

Seated rows with a wide supinated grip 

4 Exercise superset!

• Perform 3 sets of all 4 exercises back to back in this order: 
1. Hip thrusts -  15 reps
2. Shoulder press - 10-12 reps
3. Wall sit - 30-45seconds
4. Seated row - 10-12 reps
   
   Choose a weight that is manageable for these reps

Wall sits

External rotator stretch

Finish with an external rotator stretch and your choice of 2 other stretches