You’re only as strong as your weakest link. By now, you must be sick of hearing that phrase! We all know that the big prime movers are at the mercy of the small stabilizer muscles. Sure, prioritize the compound, multi-joint movements like squats, deadlifts, presses, chin-ups, and rows that typically make up the “A” series…
Correcting muscle imbalances should be a primary goal when designing strength training programs. With most individuals, a significant discrepancy exists between the shoulder internal rotators and external rotators. Simply put, we do far too much internal rotation during our daily activities and certainly during exercise and not nearly enough external rotation. You should address that…
If you constantly scratch the scab, you’ll never heal. That goes with any injury, but it’s especially true for shoulder injuries. You see, the shoulder joint is the most mobile joint in the body. It can move the arm into thousands of positions, 16,000 to be exact! If you don’t set the scapula and stabilize…
Here’s an exercise that isn’t used much in the gym – in fact, the name itself causes people to shrug – but this movement may be just what you need to boost the development of your upper traps and the strength of your elbow flexors. Doing shoulder shrugs on a standing calf raise machine is…
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If your goal is to build “barn door” wide shoulders, lean-away dumbbell laterals allow you to overload the top range of the movement where greater activity of the medial deltoid occurs.