The rotator cuff is a group of muscles and tendons that surround theshoulderjoint, keeping the head of your upper arm bone firmly within the shallow socket of the shoulder. A rotator cuff injury can cause a dull ache in the shoulder, which often worsens with use of the arm away from the...
Better shoulder stability. Tricep dips require stabilization of the shoulder joints throughout the movement. This helps to strengthen the muscles that support and stabilize the shoulders, including therotator cuff musclesand themuscles of the scapula(shoulder blade), which can help prevent and manage ...
Back to the bench: If you are in a guillotine position during a Traditional Bench Press, you’re leaving yourself no room for the rotator cuff muscles to properly function. Even worse, if the weight gets a little heavy and the bar path starts to go forward, you’re going to get interna...
Shoulder External Rotation to a Pull-Apart Exercise The following three exercises warm up your rotator cuff, a group of muscles that helps stabilize your shoulder when you use your arm. The goal is to reduce the chance of a shoulder injury by getting those muscles used to, or aware, of th...
Diagonal shoulder walks increase stability in the scapula, improve upper-body mobility, and strengthen the serratus anterior, rotator cuff, and deltoids. How to: Start in a standing position with your feet hip-width apart and knees softened. Keep your seat tight and engage your core muscles....
Physical therapy (PT) or physiotherapy is a program of fully personalized exercises and supervised movement training to help strengthen your healing muscles and joints. Massage and stretching techniques with medical aids are typically part of the treatments to re-mobilize injured tissues safely. The bi...
Not quite. Your core muscles engage throughout to stabilize your torso, while your shoulders and arms will help drive the weight overhead. The move requires full-body engagement and can strengthen your hips and your legs. It’s a surprisingly technical foundational lift, so let’s break it ...
Lateral raises primarily build and strengthen the lateral (or middle) head of the deltoid. But they’re not an isolation exercise. Thieme says lateral raises also work the anterior (or front) head of the shoulder,the trapezius, and thesupraspinatus(one of the four muscles in therotator cuff)...
Even though I’ve been practicing yoga for almost three decades, I still find myself drawn again and again to the “basic” yoga poses. These are the foundational postures and practices that don’t demand supernatural strength or flexibility but can help us stretch and strengthen our muscles,...
In Prasarita Padottanasana D (as in the illustration above), press the palms into the mat and rotate them externally. This activates theinfraspinatusandteres minormuscles of the rotator cuff. Draw your shoulders away from your ears using the lower third of thetrapezius. Note how these two ...