Shoulder injuries are very common and it’s mainly down to bad posture and lack of stability. Modern life brings us into a slumped position through sitting at desks, driving cars or watching TV. These few simple stretches and exercises when performed daily will keep your shoulders healthy and strong.
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So, today we are going to talk about healthy shoulders how to keep them strong and in good shape.
How to deal with any potential injuries you may or may have or how to prevent them
To prevent injures is always good, prevention is better than cure, as we say, but if you have had dodgy shoulders in the past or if you have them just now then these will still serve you.
So first of all we are going to look at, I guess this works both ways for preventing and curing, stretches!
So bad shoulders or any future injuries will probably come from bad posture and misalignment and certain tight muscles throughout the shoulders. So what we like to do is we stretch out first. So if I show you bad posture it’s basically here ok so we’re rolling forward and the shoulders will just not be secure enough your shoulders are a ball and socket joint and bad posture through driving too much, through sit at a desk, slouching on the sofa, so what happens is this ball and socket comes out of place slightly and we’ve got muscles on one side that are long and the other side that are very short.
So, we’re going to do some stretches. First of all we can’t activate if the opposing muscles are so tight that you can’t get the right movement
So, first stretch we’re going to go for nice and easy
A good morning stretch
Now, there’s different ways of doing this gently to start with you can just go from here and pull the arms back as far as you can
We can also take this a little bit further if we go to a doorway and we wedge our self in. So, let’s do that now.
Basically what we do is we use a door way and you want a straight line between the shoulder, the other shoulder and the elbow and we want to open up this angle
And of course do both side
The second stretch we’re going to do is very similar to the first one and, Stephen, is going to be my model. This time we’re going to rotate the thumbs down and inward and pushing back. Make sure he’s really flexed and then get revenge.
So really push the thumbs down and push away, feeling it really across the chest and the shoulders. You can also use a doorway.
Last but certainly not least this is the one that most people forget about, your lat, your lat muscle, your latissimus dorsi, is a huge, especially if you’re like this man here, a huge muscle on the back
The lat attaches to the front of the arm so when that one is tight it’s going to pull everything round and give you bad posture so it is a back muscle but we need to try and stretch it is
Stretch up as high as you can and then you can do each side if you want to you can take it a little bit further
So, this is a very common problem because in the gym you’ve always got to keep the balance of your training programme, so if you’re doing a weight training programme you can do legs, it can be back, it can be shoulders
Every day’s chest day, right?
So what we need to do is the activation of the right muscles and not just your lats because its going to make it worse.