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.