If you are a weekend warrior it is crucial that you perform rotator cuff exercises whether you have a problem that already exist or not. If you think about the most popular sports weekend warriors take part in during their packed weekends they often are taking part in golf, tennis, bowling, swimming, softball, and many more of course. Most all these weekend sports though require a lot of shoulder movement and all too often shoulder movement that is not to safe for someone who is not training their shoulder muscles.
If you want to avoid shoulder injuries it is crucial to make sure your shoulder strength and flexibility is up to par. If you happen to sit at a computer all day everyday this is even more important as your muscles are used to little movement.
If you are currently injury free stretching and training your muscles three times week would be highly beneficial. Make sure to include internal and external rotations, shoulder presses, upright rows, and some chest and back exercises to create even more support. It won't take much, you should be able to tell a quick difference when adding some rotator cuff exercises to your weekly routine.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Equipment For Rotator Cuff Exercises
If you have noticed most rotator cuff exercises require more then just your body weight. Let me give quick glimpse of understanding why you need to add some type of resistance when doing shoulder recovery movements.
Your muscles have probably become increasingly weaker as your shoulder becomes increasingly more painful. Lack of exercise and resistance on those muscle groups has probably created some sort of atrophy (loss of muscle) and ironically this will make the problem worse then it is. Once you gather some safe exercises for your injured shoulder you will need to slowly build the muscle back up. The only way to develop muscle is if you are forcing your muscle to work and this must be done with some type of resistance. Giving a new stimulus to the muscles will force them to change. It is important though to make sure your are performing the exercises slowly with correct for or you could do more damage to the rotator cuff muscles.
When trying to strengthen and recoup the shoulders it is important to spend a little time each day working them. This can become a pain if you need to show up at the gym everyday for a 7 minutes of exercise
. I personally suggest doing the exercises at home in front of the television or a book, this will help the boring exercises go quicker! If you don't have equipment at home there are plenty of solutions. For many exercises you can use a soup cans, rocks, 1/2 gallons of milk, and well anything that has some weight and you can hold it in your hand. If you want something a little more conventional you can pick up some exercise bands. Whatever the case make sure you are doing the exercises and using some weight to make them more effective. If you want stronger shoulders you must do the rotator cuff exercises.
Your muscles have probably become increasingly weaker as your shoulder becomes increasingly more painful. Lack of exercise and resistance on those muscle groups has probably created some sort of atrophy (loss of muscle) and ironically this will make the problem worse then it is. Once you gather some safe exercises for your injured shoulder you will need to slowly build the muscle back up. The only way to develop muscle is if you are forcing your muscle to work and this must be done with some type of resistance. Giving a new stimulus to the muscles will force them to change. It is important though to make sure your are performing the exercises slowly with correct for or you could do more damage to the rotator cuff muscles.
When trying to strengthen and recoup the shoulders it is important to spend a little time each day working them. This can become a pain if you need to show up at the gym everyday for a 7 minutes of exercise
. I personally suggest doing the exercises at home in front of the television or a book, this will help the boring exercises go quicker! If you don't have equipment at home there are plenty of solutions. For many exercises you can use a soup cans, rocks, 1/2 gallons of milk, and well anything that has some weight and you can hold it in your hand. If you want something a little more conventional you can pick up some exercise bands. Whatever the case make sure you are doing the exercises and using some weight to make them more effective. If you want stronger shoulders you must do the rotator cuff exercises.
My Search for Rotator Cuff Exercises
My years of long arms have forced me to have an ongoing search for rotator cuff exercises to help strengthen my weakening shoulder joints. Now owning a personal training business I have come to find that many people are dealing with aching shoulder joints. Hopefully this blog will be a quick glimpse into different exercises that will eventually strengthen you annoying rotator cuff problem.
Here is a one of the most basics yet extremely effective exercises.
As you can see it is a simple exercise and quite honestly does not take much time. One last concept that is important to understand when helping the shoulders is that a simple routine takes a very short amount of time each day, but in that time you can get great results. Best advice I can give is that if you want stronger shoulders then you need to start your rotator cuff exercises today.
Here is a one of the most basics yet extremely effective exercises.
As you can see it is a simple exercise and quite honestly does not take much time. One last concept that is important to understand when helping the shoulders is that a simple routine
takes a very short amount of time each day, but in that time you can get great results. Best advice I can give is that if you want stronger shoulders then you need to start your rotator cuff exercises today.
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