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Do you experience overhead press pain?
The overhead press is a complicated movement to do correctly because it requires a ton of shoulder mobility.
People who mess it up often have lots of back tightness and shoulder pain.
In this article, I’m going to talk through four hacks to either fix or help you work around your overhead press pain.
Continue readingShould mobility exercises are an important tool because every lifter will have shoulder problems someday.
The key is to understand what’s going on and have a plan for keeping them loose. Stay proactive!
In this article, I’ll briefly list the pertinent anatomy, give your shoulders some principles to live by, and leave you with a free, 18-minute shoulder mobility circuit.
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Rowing is one of our fundamental movements that everyone should master. It’s relatively easy to find people with a big chest or big legs who are still weak. It’s impossible to find someone with a big back who is weak.
Here’s a playlist of five videos describing the muscles involved in the rowing movement. Namely, the lower traps, the upper traps, the rhomboids, the lats, and a little troubleshooting.
Like these videos? Then you’ll love The Movement Seminar.
I’m looking for a flush scapula on the rib cage. If I see it coming off of the rib cage in any area, then I want to fix it. The only other situation where this doesn’t work is when someone is substituting scapular elevation for protraction.
Scapular winging is likely when the rib cage is wide. When you look down on it from above, it looks more like a rectangle and less like a circle. This makes it difficult for the scaps to swing around because they have to make a sharp turn.
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