[quote]rds63799 wrote:
What I’ve been doing is basically just prone trap raises done with a resistance band. If you kneel on one end of the band and angle your body at like 45 degrees to the floor you can do prone trap raises and the diagonal pull of the band seems to perfectly mimic the angle your scapula makes when it rotates upward.
After a week of doing 100 reps of these a day my shoulder feels better than it has in years! Literally years. 2 months of no pressing and just rowing didn’t do a damn thing, but a week of this exercise has my shoulder good as new.[/quote]
You have a video of this? Or something to basically demonstrate the movement? I’m confused by the description.
[quote]rds63799 wrote:
What I’ve been doing is basically just prone trap raises done with a resistance band. If you kneel on one end of the band and angle your body at like 45 degrees to the floor you can do prone trap raises and the diagonal pull of the band seems to perfectly mimic the angle your scapula makes when it rotates upward.
After a week of doing 100 reps of these a day my shoulder feels better than it has in years! Literally years. 2 months of no pressing and just rowing didn’t do a damn thing, but a week of this exercise has my shoulder good as new.[/quote]
You have a video of this? Or something to basically demonstrate the movement? I’m confused by the description.
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done with a band. I kneel on one end of the band to anchor it. I also raise my arm straight out in front of me, whereas the guy in the video seems to let his come out to the side slightly. Using a band instesad of a dumbell I find makes for a much stronger contraction and better MMC. I can really feel my upward rotators fire. It also seems to work best if I use a band that allows about 20 reps.
Don’t lower your arm all the way down, keep the ROM sensible to keep tension on the upward rotators (go too low and it’ll turn into a shoulder exercise). If you do it right you’ll feel it around the shoulder blade and in your armpit.
hope that helps guys, it’s honestly been the single most awesome thing I’ve ever done to make my shoulders feel good.
haha, yeah man we had a party in your log while you were away, hope you don’t mind.
One thing: I don’t really shrug my shoulder the way the guy in the video does, I concentrate more on really squeezing the top of the rep but play about with it, what works for me might not work for you…
[quote]rds63799 wrote:
haha, yeah man we had a party in your log while you were away, hope you don’t mind.
One thing: I don’t really shrug my shoulder the way the guy in the video does, I concentrate more on really squeezing the top of the rep but play about with it, what works for me might not work for you…[/quote]
i tried them…they felt good. Makes my collar bone pop though so i gotta mess around with the ROM and shruggin action XD
not since my most recent shoulder injury, although I may well consider trying them. I’m a little worried about the ROM.
I’ve only gone back to training my chest this last week, and although my shoulder’s been feeling pretty good I’m trying to keep the poundages down as best I can. What I’m doing is training my chest with a fly + press combo. So every set of presses starts with 20 reps of flyes, then I go straight into pressing the dumbells for 10 or so. Burns like hellfire and keeps the loading down.
means you have to use tiny little embarrassing dumbells though…
[quote]rds63799 wrote:
not since my most recent shoulder injury, although I may well consider trying them. I’m a little worried about the ROM.
I’ve only gone back to training my chest this last week, and although my shoulder’s been feeling pretty good I’m trying to keep the poundages down as best I can. What I’m doing is training my chest with a fly + press combo. So every set of presses starts with 20 reps of flyes, then I go straight into pressing the dumbells for 10 or so. Burns like hellfire and keeps the loading down.
means you have to use tiny little embarrassing dumbells though…[/quote]
thats a nifty idea. You ever try doing incline cable flys? When i do those after a few weeks it really helped train my shoulder thorugh a full ROM again and made it feel much more secure and mobile. Ill be bringing those back as soon as im back at school with cables
[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
Are side swings the gironda ones or something else?[/quote]
not sure what gironda side swings are, but just sitting side lateral partials pretty much meadows style
is there a difference between meadows and girondas swings?
some random shit, calves and mad core yo. finished with 15 min on the elliptical. Already getting soem veins back in my arms/forearms, which is a good sign that im doing things right againd iet/training wise.
Bought a neck decompression unit, goes over the door and just does some traction on the neck so i dont need to go to pt just to have my neck pulled on XD na but seriously i put the thing on and after 2 minutes the feeling rushes back into my hand, its lovely.
