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Hey everybody, Kevin Weiss from bodyperformance.net.
And today I want to talk about working around limitation or possibly injuries and still being able to work the same muscles but you maybe just have to tweak stuff a little bit so a little bit of experimentation can keep you still training without having to give up on an exercise or give up on working your muscle for certain amount of time.
Sometimes you don’t have an option, you get a bad injury you’re gonna need a little bit of time off.
A lot of this stuff obviously is self-experimentation that I’ve done, so I used my shoulder as an example. I hurt it several months back not training doing something else and I found fairly quickly that any amount of pulling forward of the shoulder will aggravate it that’s how it was injured it was pulled forward in the socket. So something like a barbell curl and this even with good form. When I would come up like this I feel like a rare bone shear because of the pull forward in the socket so I knew very quickly that problem and no good to do that you keep doing stuff that hurts, you’re probably not gonna get any better. So, what I did is I started experimenting with or maybe if dumbbells will be way better so same thing I just did a regular dumbbell curl and it is marginally better but this position is still the same thing. Its pulling downwards, pulling slightly forward even if I’m keeping my chest out and my shoulders back in that position I still feel it. So, then I tried a hammer curl, because when you are doing a hammer curl properly you typically don’t come up pass here because coming here you’re just basically flexing your shoulder anyways. So, as I able to keep my shoulder back and down and the pain was greatly reduced doing this. But, I still thought I can do a little bit better. I was happy with how that felt compared to the barbell curl it was night and day, so I get those for a while. But I constantly kept on working on trying to make it better. Then I decided, well if I’m trying to keep my shoulder pull back and down, if I change my angle to where I am sitting to an inclined bench like this and leaning back that essentially pulls me where I wanna be. And I didn’t go on this immediately because doing inclined curls for some people if their shoulders are hurting it actually makes it worse, but it depends where the injuries is. In my particular situation, getting the shoulder standing to that position and then curling up it essentially took the pain away completely. And it didn’t matter really if I get a regular curl like this or switch to a hammer curl my shoulder stayed in good position and no pain.
So that is just one example of how you got to tweak stuff, you got to work around stuff, you got to play with stuff whether you’re a trainer for somebody else or you’re training yourself. Just because one exercise doesn’t work, it doesn’t mean you can’t figure it out and make something else work for you.
So, I hope this helps you out. Kevin Weiss, from bodyperformance.net, talk to you again soon.
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