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Hi, Everybody! I’m Kevin Weiss from bodyperformance.net. Today, I’m keeping with with my friends from RipToned Fitness Products to talk about a subject that I hear a lot about and I have to deal with it a little bit in my own training, in my own life and that is shoulder pain. If you do any amount of volume as far as lifting goes, you’re gonna have some shoulder pain eventually. It’s not necessarily a major injury but it’s just an issue that pops up if you play any type of sport - volleyball, tennis, something like that or you hit a ball, smash a ball, spike a ball, anything like that or you have a lot of shoulder rotation, whether be overhead or to the side. You’re gonna develop some shoulder pain once in a while. Ironically, if you don’t do anything, if you don’t do any lifting or any sports of any kind and you’re very sanitary, you sit in a desk on a computer something like that all day, working in front of you. You’re gonna have shoulder pain from that too. When these things arise, the shoulder pain, taking so many inflammatory pills and going and seeing a massage therapist or a physical therapist, many different kinds of them, I don’t believe it’s enough. But in reality, you’re not likely to go and see them on a daily basis unless you’re a professional athlete and you have unlimited funds and unlimited resources to do this. In reality, you’re probably will see them a few times a month, maybe even a handful of times a year and that just isn’t gonna cut it. The pills themselves, they’re just gonna mask the symptoms but they’re not gonna address what is causing the pain. I hurt my shoulders, I’ve been working out for 35 years, I had shoulder pain off and on throughout that time, nothing major but bang, guess what? You hurt your shoulder doing something else that’s not even necessary that physical. I get some therapy and stuff like that but I feel I need to do something on a regular daily or almost daily basis that isn’t gonna take a ton of time.
I start with a rolling crucifix, this helps to open up the thoracic spine and stretches out the chest and anterior delts, which is the front part of the shoulders. Start with your hands overhead, and roll side to side smoothly, for 10-20 reps per side. If the last stretch was the pitchers stretch, then this could be the volleyball or tennis stretch, as your arm is in a very similar position to a volleyball spike or a tennis serve. Brace your shoulder against the doorway or something similar with your hand about your level. Slide your hand up the doorway, the full extension and pull it back down being sure to pull your shoulder blade down and toward your mid back, 10-20 reps per side. You’re better off to find the tight spots and hang out there for a bit longer and work on that small area. I prefer to do more side to side rolling across the muscle as oppose to rolling along the grain. You can add a band to keep your arm fully extended, and a more aggressive roller if you wish, 60 seconds per side will seem like a lifetime. Next step is the pullapart with external rotation, choose a light band and grab with slightly wider than shoulder width. A common mistake is people shrugging their shoulder when they pull, which is incorrect. Use the same grip as the previous exercise but now you’re going to raise both arms from chest level to overhead while maintaining tension on the band. To finish off, we’re going to work on the upper back, which plays a big part to shoulder mobility. When it is better and I’m not feeling it anymore, like an idiot half the time I stop doing the stuff that made it feel better. Maybe I do it, three times a week, four times a week, twice a week, but atleast you’re doing it regularly. Drop 1 or 2 of the exercises, as long as you’re addressing the three things that’s gonna be causing your shoulder pain which is going to be usually tightness in the front, weakness in the back and a tight thoracic spine. So, if you’re atleast doing one thing for each of those things, you’re doing a lot more than most people are doing right now.
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