Slow and steady.
Which internal rotation stretch are you using?
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I can touch hands behind my back with the left one. But the right was is not even close.
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I guess it is true that Texans are a breed apart 
But yeah, I agree that was probably a little bit unlucky.
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Thank you for sharing that - internal rotation variants are always useful.
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You can do it with a band or towel as well. I just happen to have some pvc pipe laying around.
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It can be frustrating! You want the “The Fix” to fix shit, only you need to get better at the fix for it to work.
Heres a video about internal rotation I just saw yesterday, How Lucky! Therapist dude says he would put the lady on the table, grab her wrist and guide her arm through that same chicken wing motion motion your doing. He says he would also massage the muscles around her back and shoulder as he helped her through the chicken wing motion. And by mashing her shit up he’s helping her feel her back/shoulder muscles, how they’re involved in the motion and and to feel any tight spots or restrictions. So she can figure out how those muscles work to properly move her shoulder.
Then he says if she was by herself with no therapist she could put a lacrosse ball behind her shoulder and roll around on top of it while she chicken winged herself. Feeling her way through the muscles and motion involved.
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Another good shoulder warm up movement is called Scare Crows.
Another thing that helped my shoulders heal up the most was to stop pressing overhead with a bb and move to dbs and try to work in the scapula plane. I know you follow Paul Carter as I heard you mention it before. He harps on this for overhead pressing a lot.
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Thanks Flats! I will order a lacrosse ball and give this a try.
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Thanks! I am taking a break from OHP right now anyway. I will come back around to it. The problem is when bench my shoulders are still crooked. The right one is low or the left one is high. Maybe a little bit of both. Who knows 
I’ll keep on this a for a while and see if there is any improvement.
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I like the looks of this. Gonna give it a try.
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So, “One-Eyed Jack of Diamonds” huh? Does this mean you’re the wild card?
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Exactly! Technically speaking one eyed jacks are spades and hearts, not diamonds.
But I like the song anyway 
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Doesn’t the jack of spades card technically have 2 eyes ?
But the card has two, one at the top and one at the bottom
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My main internal rotation stuff is usually to grip cupboard handle behind my back and slowly squat down - forcing my arm/hand up towards my shoulderblades supplemented with some cubans. Since I started this (and supinated pull-aparts), my shoulder issues have more or less vanished. But will try this also, you can never have too many tricks in your bag.
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I see what you did there. 
I stopped using a barbell altogether for OHP & bench; I only use DBs now and my shoulders are MUCH happier.
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My shoulders themselves aren’t particularly unhappy, unless I do dips… lol The purpose of the prehab/rehab stuff is to straighten out/ unlock my upper body so I can bench press more weight. When the weight gets heavy I tend to “twist” the bar up.
I realize there is a touch of scoliosis at play here, but mostly just imbalances caused by too many years of driving.
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Wu= uh I dunno, some step ups and something else
Trap bar
1x5/140
1x5/160
1x5/180
5x5/190
BB row
5x10/65
DB pullovers
3x10/15
Landmine row with wide v handle. Haven’t used this thing enough to have the hang of it
5x10/25+
Lat pulls wide grip
5x10/100
Ring rows to failure which wasn’t many at this point in the game
Kneeling cable crunch
3x10/100
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