Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 231: Shoulder Pain, Rich Piana, Mobility Exercises & MORE
Episode Date: February 3, 2016Quah time again! This week Sal, Adam & Justin answer your questions about the cause of postural imbalances, the amount of weight needed when performing MAPS Performance Mobility Exercises, Rich Piana ...showcasing his daily anabolic steroid use and correcting shoulder pain. Please subscribe, rate and review this show! Learn more about Mind Pump at www.mindpumpradio.com
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Yeah, exactly.
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Mind up, mind up with your hosts.
Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.
I just discovered something very interesting.
I know that you're gonna point out.
No, no, no, I know.
Listen, very interesting.
Did you know your phone has a panorama function
that allows you to take pictures from wide angles?
Do you know why that's gonna come in hand?
That way, that came in handy for just in the other day?
Yeah. You guys are such like, roll you under the bus. Do you know why that's gonna come in hand that white why that came in handy for Justin the other day?
Guys are such like roll you under the bus Just you know you're gonna put it out. You know what I love about us
If one of us tries to be private and share like a still private story
Here yeah, yeah, so what happened just
of course you're bringing on hair. Yeah, yeah.
So what happened yesterday?
Why did you have to use that?
Okay, this was like, wait, I'm sorry.
I wanted to set the full stage here, right?
Well, last weekend, why if he's out of town?
Yeah, so anyways.
She went out of town with her friends
and decided to stay at this hotel.
I'm like, yeah, yeah, have fun going out
with your girlfriends, you know,
get away from us and kids and I got them all weekend,
you know, all that stuff.
And so I'm trying to be like super cool and,
you know, like, everything's fine.
And she'll text me, you know, how's everything going?
I'm like, y'all don't worry about me, whatever.
And so then, bam, I send her a dick pic.
What?
What?
Yeah.
Cause like, I'm at that point where logically,
that's the next thing.
I'm at that point, right? Or I'm like, okay, we've been married for a good amount of time now. And I'm at that point where logically that's the next point right where I'm like
K we've been married for a good amount of time now and it's like it's time for the dick pick
I got it you know you got to shake it up I'm in any like well I gotta keep her guessing
What did she say to you she's like what what yeah you've never done that before never that is so
Never done it. I was like I was thinking about that. I was like this is so sound atoms influence on me
Yeah, cuz we said shit is true So, whatever, that's why I was thinking about that. I was like, this is so sound atoms influence on me.
Yeah, cause we said,
shit is true.
We said dick pics all the time.
Yeah, to each other, to the group text.
So, so that's through.
So the whole story is there's,
there's nothing weird about it
until you say you've never done that before.
I don't know anybody that's never taken a picture
of the real deal over the,
well yeah, but not like, like here, you know, congratulations.
Yeah.
What, that don't care.
Did you tell her, your friend?
No, no girl on this planet is like, yay, you know, thanks for the, it doesn't work.
Thanks for the meat hawk.
It didn't write my face as all of my screen.
I mean, use it as a screen saver.
Well, I was like, it looks like someone was standing on the roof and took a picture of it.
Of a piglet on the ground.
I'll be honest though, like he gets pretty good angles.
And I was kinda like, whoa.
Looks like, look at Daddy's back here.
It looks like it's bruised.
Oh, no, that's just, it's just throbbing.
Yeah, it's throbbing.
How's it throbbing?
He's still at the same time.
Oh my God.
I don't know.
That's disgusting.
Yes.
How many dick pics have you taken?
I don't know, I don't think I've taken any actually.
This is the first time I've ever even thought of that.
No.
What's that?
Such a liar.
Liar.
I can't believe that.
That's the first time I can't believe you've never just wondered.
You've never wondered what it looks like from that angle?
Well, I have done that.
No, no, no, no, no.
I just, what I'm trying to say is I've never actually been like,
yes, okay, now I'm gonna put this in a text message form
and send it across the world and the internet, ethernet.
I just, you know, I always feel like something.
She's like, honey, you sent me a picture of your dick one time.
I'm gonna go to like my grandmars.
And we went over our day paranoid.
Yeah, so I use all the data with that massive.
So, take that AT&T boom.
No, do you do other funny,
cock block everybody?
You guys do the dear girls, you guys do weird,
like everyone's so wild, just be weird like that,
we're just totally out of left.
Right?
Like I totally do that.
Like, I mean, it's been,
obviously escalated now.
Could you know, be like reading on the couch
and I'll come up and I'll just like set my nut sack
on our shoulders
Don't you wow
Want some tea and then like your bags
That'd be a great joke
It's just gently
I don't know. It's just it's just gently. Yeah, yeah, just over that
I think it's like hitting it like a tear drop like hitting this
Wow, did you need two sugars? I don't remember
Blink blink
What the fuck is wrong with you guys?
That's what you know, it's fun. You don't do that, bro?
No, dude, I don't like you and Mary the longest
I was like bro, I would say you know, we get ripped off.
You grow like whack. I don play for sure. I would be in the army. And we get ripped off. You grow like, whack.
I don't, we had randomly walk up and like,
surprise, nothing is shown on earth.
No, I don't even just rip it off.
My goal is always to see how long I can get away with it
before she notices it.
That's the like, I can set it on it.
Yeah, like something's, yeah, what is that?
What's that?
What is that?
That's warm, like smell.
What is smell is like old spider here.
It's kind of moist.
I think I'm my shoulder
What is that put it put cheese on my shoulder? Oh
It's like gum
That's enough you guys it's time for cross the line. We gotta get serious now all right
It's time why cuz now we gotta do the claw. Oh
Motherfucker cool now. We gotta do the claw claw claw claw
Let's do it like that. Cue a dog do not and do not edit out the nut story
No, don't worry. It's in there
Where's the nuts confirm it's in there
All right, Cue a the burly boy asks what causes posture imbalances
repetitive movements lack of movements.
Muscle imbalances.
Bottom line.
Yeah, if you're not overusing ones and underusing other ones, that's what I'll do it.
Yeah, if you place your body in a position for long periods of time every single day, your
posture will start to adapt around that position.
So the muscles that are shortened become tighter, the muscles that are lengthened become looser,
things become weak out of that position and you become stronger in that position.
So then when you get up to walk, you have like what's common, like a very common, you
know, posture imbalance would be like forward shoulder where your shoulders are rolled
forward or your head jets forward
You see that much more much more commonly now because of tech right people
Yeah, the desk is yeah, yeah, yeah, I was leaning over there. Sure. I look at I look at this too like muscles really that there are
What's holding everything together right like in your spine? I'll call them everything all your bones or skeletal structure and
Another thing that that comes to mind is injuries, right?
So injuries are definitely going to affect the way that you're going to be imbalanced
posturally going forward because you're going to compensate for that injury.
You're going to try and rehabilitate to where you still can get the proper connectivity
that you used to have, but it's not always going to be, you know, right away.
And here's the thing, you said something interesting about them holding you together and holding
you up in your spine.
If you look at your spine, because we're talking about posture, the spine's a big part of
that.
There's lots of other things involved, but we'll just look at the spine.
The spine has got a lot of joints on it.
That thing can move in all kinds of different directions.
So if muscles are tight or weak, it's gonna follow the path of least resistance. And you're gonna have bad posture, and over time,
your spine can actually grow and change to,
extreme cases, people get things that hump backs
and stuff like that, or they'll get permanent,
bad curvature in their spine.
But that can happen over time.
Not to mention poor posture makes you weaker,
because you're not in a biomechanically advantageous position
because your posture is poor.
So you're weaker and more prone to injury when you do everyday activities like lifting
a box or moving a chair or stepping over a curb or something like that.
Your chance of injury is that much higher.
And it's also unattractive.
A lot of times you're not attractive.
It is unattractive.
And I think that's why it's unattractive is because we recognize how inefficient that is.
It is, 100%.
Yeah, and it's like a lot of times if people are in that,
like severe sort of postural distorted body,
it like you're not even gonna be able to fire
these major muscle groups.
Like you're using all these like,
smaller muscle groups to do all the lifting,
all the heavy load, that's to stress them out really quick.
Yeah, I'll say it with forward shoulder, because that's a common one.
Shoulders rolled forward just to give some tips.
You want to work on what's called scapular retraction and depression.
So you want the shoulder blades to be able to squeeze back and down at the same time.
It's like you're squeezing them together on the back and then putting them in your back
mongons.
And so what you want to do is you want to pick a cable row is really good for this.
Make it light.
You can't really add much weight because you have this muscle recruitment pattern that's
going to turn on as soon as you give yourself too much of a challenge.
That has to be really light.
Go real light and focus on that part of the movement, the squeezing back and down.
And believe it or not, a lot of people,
I train a lot of people and they just can't fucking do it.
I have to literally place them in position to teach their body how to move that way.
But you've got to train the way you want to correct the posture.
It's not just the exercise.
So if you're doing rows, but you're not getting scapular retraction, you're actually going
to strengthen the imbalance.
You're going to make the imbalance worse.
So that's how you correct imbalances in a nutshell.
And you know, it's interesting. Like some people, I think a lot of people think that they're
wired a certain way. Like they're genetically wired that way. Like I don't move that way.
But they've never really addressed it specifically. Like I need to correct this because there is no
connectivity here. Like they never even thought of that. It's more just like, well, you know, I was, I always like, you know, I couldn't really like lean that far to that direction.
Right. My mind just doesn't do that. But I used to remind me, now that you guys brought
this up, this is a really good, I'm glad we went here. I'm going to, you're glad we went
off the nuts on the shoulder. Yeah, yeah, we got serious. That's the, you did exactly
this one. That's what really matters to butts. Yeah, right. Oh, very good. Oh, yeah, we got serious. That's the thing. Yeah, exactly. That's what really matters. Not just the butts, right?
Every time.
Oh, very good.
Oh.
Remind me to do a video for the forum.
It'll be a short little, I do this little posture check.
This is what I used to do with people.
I just a simple little posture check
and puts you into neutral spinal alignment.
And I don't tell people what I'm doing.
I just tell them, you know, spread your feet out,
tell them to do this and then these movements.
And then once I get them in that position,
I tell them to hold that position.
And like most people feel super awkward in that position.
And it's really where they should be.
And I put them in the anatomical position.
I say, okay, this is the way you should be walking,
sitting, standing, most certainly moving around
throughout your day.
And the more awkward this feels for you right now, and I'm normally talking to a group of
people is that's how bad you, that's how bad your imbalances are.
Because if it feels like work to do that, that means you got some serious imbalances that
we should address.
Otherwise, it's going to get into causing a promise and continue to worsen as time goes
on.
It's not going to just naturally get better and simply just working out and exercising
isn't going to necessarily get that better either.
It's learning how to focus specifically on what's wrong.
And then I would give them like a small ways to, you know, here's some other signs.
If you sit down to do a seated row like Salisane and you feel it in your biceps more than
anywhere else, you feel your biceps pulling and you don't ever get sore in your back.
Your back doesn't really get sore from the exercise or you lay down on a bench press and
you fill it all in your shoulders and your triceps, you know, all shoulders and triceps. You you're you've barely feel it in your chest.
Your body's not in the right position to activate and recruit the right muscles through that movement. Like Justin is saying, you've now formed it
shaped it in a manner that it's going to do whatever whatever is most conducive for it doesn't necessarily mean what's best for it. It's become efficient at it.
It's what's happened.
Your body has learned because your central nervous system
wires itself that way.
Your body has now learned this particular pattern
and it's learned it so well that it becomes more efficient
to do that pattern even though it's wrong
than to do the proper pattern because it hasn't learned it.
Does that make sense?
Yeah.
So it becomes efficient to go in that direction.
But once you teach it proper posture,
good muscle recruitment patterns,
then it becomes effortless and it becomes second nature.
It's like breathing and you move in with good posture.
That's something you need to think about.
That's the other thing.
It's not something you should have to think about.
Oh, I gotta fix my posture.
Good posture happens naturally when you're free of muscle imbalances and you have good recruitment patterns.
I just had like a, uh, uh, uh, you saying that with the central nervous system.
You know, I love the, I love the analogy that you've given.
It's, it's changed just the way I look at so many things with, uh, the central nervous system being like an apple fire to speakers.
Because then when I, when I think of that, of that and this analogy that we're talking about with posture
and trying to fire and activate the right muscles, imagine you have that 12-inch woofer, you have that amplifier and
there's
40 other 12-inch woofers and you're spreading the
connection to all those those woofers, how powerful and how much bass are you gonna get out of those 40 whoopers versus if all of it's being directed right towards one pair of twig whoopers.
Or cutting off a lot of your channels.
Yeah, right.
I mean, you would be like letting your body form into these like not advantageous postural
positions, right?
Now you're now you're dampening the signal in a lot of different places.
Exactly.
Exactly.
And yeah, and I look at like that too, but I also look at like, you know, it's communication.
So like if you're interrupting communication
or you're just telling your body that like,
well, I don't really, I don't really use this that much.
It's gonna prioritize the ones that it's gonna use more.
Right, cause then it's gonna, you know,
really charge that in opposition.
Right, cause when you're using your analogy
at a with the 40 speakers, really, if you really break it down,
the central nervous system is firing.
These speakers over here with a lot more power than this one
over here is kind of off.
And so it's got a pattern that it fires at,
and the pattern is wrong.
It's not making music.
You want to teach it to use the right pattern
and the way you do that.
You want the death metal is through.
Come down.
Next question is from Secret Agent Bob 2000.
How much weight should he use when doing maps, performance, mobility exercises?
Okay, so we should explain what a mobility session is to those people listening who haven't enrolled in math performance.
So a mobility session is a workout that you do in between your main foundational workouts
that are designed to increase mobility, flexibility, movement, facilitate recovery.
And so you were at Facilitate Recovery.
Recovery.
Yes.
And a lot of what we put in that came from the brain
of the gentleman sitting in my right, Justin,
who's much more of an expert on this subject.
And I was actually blown away, Justin, honestly,
looking at some of the stuff that you put in there
because you used things like, you know,
phone rolling, everything from phone rolling
to active dynamic stretching to other techniques,
maybe you can go into.
Right, yeah, so I mean, the point of this is that
you're asking for like a specific amount of weight.
Well, really what we're trying to do is promote tension,
but we're doing it like with recovery on our mind.
So I'm not trying to use this as like a workout
where I'm really going to feel like
I'm going to get exhausted or I'm going to over. Yeah, I'm going to try really hard to pursue
my way through this exercise. It's more of a movement quality and what I'm focused on is being
able to connect and get the right type of tension where I want to get it. So what this is doing
is reinforcing that signal. It's reinforcing that central nervous system signal
to keep those amplifiers on point as far as bringing that now
into our major compound lifts and more highly intense days.
So I'll actually be charged going into one
of these foundational days.
So other ways that I use this too, and
I'll use some techniques with isometrics, with the stick, mobility, stuff like that. What
I'm doing is I'm creating this tension by self-enforced tension. So what I'm doing is
I'm applying this force through the stick into the ground. And I'm actually, I'm going through range of motion,
but I'm also, I'm doing that actively.
I'm doing that actively, not passively.
And we kind of explain the difference between that.
That's why it's not a day of just stretching
for an hour or two.
No, no, no.
There's, there's, look at it this way.
No, it's a workout, but it's not.
Yeah, and Justin, you can correct me if I wrong,
but I treat it like this.
I look at my mobility days as your priorities have switched.
When I'm in my foundational days,
I'm there to put some work in.
I'm trying to progress my way.
I'm trying to move up, challenge myself physically.
On a mobility day, my priorities are more about range of motion,
flexibility, form and technique.
Yes.
You know, I'm very heavy on the technique.
Yes.
I'm getting more into the craft and the art of my movement and the flow of what I'm doing.
And it should be something that's, it will be a little challenging because I'm working
for sure, but it's, that's less of a priority.
I'd rather walk out of the workout and feel like, oh my god, I didn't even break a sweat
or I didn't even burn any muscles were never burning or never pumped. That's okay
Because my priority isn't there, you know my priority is like I said flexibility range emotion movement circulation
Like all these things. I mean that's really what it's promoting and that's where the recovery happens is because we're getting this
Blood flow we're getting this oxygen to move throughout your body the way we wanted to to heal cells
But at the same time
It's at a low enough intensity where you know, it's not gonna
You know lower your performance going into the to the more intense days
So what we're trying to do is really you know, promote better performance when you need performance right?
This is all part of the program right because if you look at it, you know, here's a deal
You have your workouts to produce the bulk of your results.
Your body has a limited ability to recover and adapt from those.
So if it had an unlimited ability, we would just do foundational workouts,
you know, three times a day, every single day, but we can't.
We can do them, you know, so many days a week and then any more than that,
it's going to be too much, but we've got days off and between.
What do we do with those?
Well, the best focus on those days is to take those days
and use them so that the next time you do
your foundational workout,
you've increased its effectiveness.
So, all we're doing is we're taking those days
and we're leveraging them to make the foundational days
that much more effective.
And with math performance,
we put mobility sessions in there
because a lot of the workouts and math performance
are functional based.
They're not your bodybuilding, muscle pump movements,
they're very functional.
And we know that you got to maintain mobility
and have active recovery.
Go into those workouts and have good performance.
And you can also look at it like if you're doing
some kind of movement within your foundational
days that you're not as familiar with, you can really go light and just duplicate that
movement.
That's where the freedom and flexibility of these mobility days are therefore is really
for you to, because they're more complex, you don't have a machine to dictate where you
should orientate your body.
Right.
So if you're listening and you don't even have the program,
I mean, just like what we're talking about,
you can go in the gym with this intent
and you can come out with something
that's gonna benefit the next hard workout that you do.
That's the concept and the philosophy behind.
I love what I enjoy about it too,
is it's a mental change too,
which I think you need to learn to have that.
If you're somebody who heads into each workout with the same mentality and saying intensity,
you need to have a different mentality.
That's where I really, great point.
I really look at those days as like, I'm trying to perfect this craft.
I'm really analyzing my form on everything that I'm doing because that's what I'm trying
to do.
And you really as responsive as you think you are
and go through that lift.
Exactly.
And that's what I challenge people that challenge
the intensity.
That's a great, say that again, that's freaking awesome.
Are you really as responsive?
You said something like that.
Are you really as responsive as you think you are?
Yeah, that lift.
Yeah, that lift.
That's great.
Yeah. I got my mind thinking.
No.
So I mean, that's, uh, so I know he asked what weights we should do is like, you know,
the long, long, winded answer from us is that you need to find a light enough weight
that is, is not going to have any sort of hindrance on your foundational day the next
day.
When you go to, if you are, if you're challenging yourself in any way that is is going to, you know,
hinder the performance of your next workout, then you definitely went too hard and you need to light
the weight up. That's it. Yeah. Our next question is from Games and Games. I love saying that.
Games and games. Games. Their question is about whole lot about him, other than what I hear.
But for someone who does,
who takes steroids, looks the way he does,
and is honest about it, I respect him.
I mean, that's a straight up.
Well, I need to be honest about him.
I'm with you on that.
I do subscribe to his channel.
I do subscribe to his channel.
I do subscribe to his channel.
I do subscribe to his channel.
I do subscribe to his channel.
I do subscribe to his channel.
I do subscribe to his channel. I do subscribe to his channel. I do subscribe to his channel. I it, I respect them. I mean, that's the straight up.
You need to be honest about them.
I'm with you on that.
I do subscribe to his stuff.
I do enjoy listening to him,
even though he's not in no offense rich,
you know, he's not like a lame,
norton type of knowledgeable guy.
No, I don't, and he would, and he knows that, right?
He would, he would, he would, he would, he would,
Yeah, yeah, I don't think he's the type that's like that.
But what I do, he would like us,
he's very raw, very real, very candid.
He does anybody that's transparent
in like his honest about their process.
Like you really can't fault the guy for that.
Well, and I really feel too,
like so I have, I don't mind him to,
and I know I'm sure the person who's asking the question,
maybe they have a young son,
or they're just questioning if that's a good thing
that we think that somebody
should be on there talking about their steroids.
But hey, I think that's healthier and better.
I mean, if someone, I mean, if you look at him, he represents a very small percentage of
people want to look like that.
And if you really want to, then I appreciate him putting out there what it took for him
to look like that.
And you're going to commit to looking like that.
It's kind of part of the process.
It is, right?
And I talk about it as to kind of, you know,
it's a disservice.
To me, I would be more angry to hear him push, you know,
some protein powder or some, you know, muscle building
stack that's just a piece of shit stack that he takes
just so he can pedal it and sell it.
And not disclose that, you disclose that 99% of his results
are coming from all the hard work in steroids he's taking.
And I could see from a parental perspective,
like yeah, you don't want your kids to be exposed
to certain things, but at the same time,
it really is on the parent then to help that kid understand
that this is why these are some of the health
ramifications, if you're really gonna pursue this,
you really wanna overeducate more than to just keep it a mystery.
Well here's a deal, parents have told their kids
don't have sex for freaking thousands of years
and the way they do it is they say it's bad and the devil,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And you know what that does?
It creates problems.
Rather than now, a lot of parents just sit down
and you talk to your kids, you know,
you're open with them.
This guy what he's doing and he's being honest about it,
about his use and stuff, I don't see the harmony.
And look, when your kids walk out the front door,
they go on to real life.
And real life is full of this shit and the internet's there.
You can't stop it.
So I might, I wouldn't be like, yes, son. I'm glad you're watching that. You know,
especially he's exactly. I mean, he's under a certain age. I can change it. Yeah.
But I would rather him do that than have him on their saying, no, I look this way because of
supplements. Like Adam said, next thing you know, my kids working out, taking supplements,
and nothing's working. And now he thinks he has to take steroids. You know what I'm saying?
Exactly.
So I think if you're gonna do dirt,
you're gonna be that kind of person,
but you're honest about it.
Well, I'm just gonna hurt anybody else.
Fine.
Yeah, no, I have a lot of respect for him for doing it.
Tiffany Alana's 15 is asking about her dislocated shoulder.
She did that about eight years ago,
but recently it's been hurting her when she's doing pull downs.
So here's a thing with shoulder pain.
I don't know where her shoulder hurts.
I can't see how it moves, so I can't help her.
But I'll say this, the most common problems with shoulders
with people working out, really kind of fall into a few categories.
You have shoulder impingement, which is where the clavicle in as too close to your scapula
because of the shoulder position and there's muscles and stuff underneath that that get impinged
and it causes inflammation.
That kind of pain tends to go down the arm, so people will feel it kind of going down
the side of their shoulder.
And to correct that, you want to be able
to bring the shoulders back and down.
You want to strengthen that back and down kind of position.
The other shoulder pain that's common
is the pain in the front of the shoulder.
Actually Doug came in today with this kind of pain
where they feel it right in the front of the shoulder
and any type of press hurts like hell,
especially a chest press or an overhead press.
That tends to be indicative of bicep tendon inflammation.
So it's actually not the shoulder.
It's the bicep tendon because it wraps over
the top of the humorous.
That gets inflamed and then the front of the shoulder hurts.
Anytime you try to abduct the humorous
or move it into a press of some sort.
And then the other type of pain is the one
that's behind the shoulder.
And people will have trouble putting the arm behind their back.
Like if you're going to kind of put your arm behind the back and like rub the back of
your hand up your back, the back of your back.
Hold it like you're getting handcuffed.
Yes.
And that has to do with the rotator cuff, the muscles of the rotator cuff, the infraspinatus,
super spinatus.
And for that same thing, the fix would also be shoulders back and down, but also do like
external rotation exercises to strengthen it
So I don't know what your pain, you know what kind of pain you have, but those are the three most common and many times
there
A lot of times people have them all at the same time and they kind of like the trifecta
Oh, and then the other one that's not as common. They do butterfly pull ups butterfly
Then the last one that shoulder pain. It's not as common is still there. It's still there. Butterfly pull ups. Butterfly pull ups.
Then the last one, that shoulder pain,
it's not as common, but it's still there's
a chromio-clivicular joint pain.
This is where the shoulder, the collarbone joint
goes all the way out to the shoulder
and some people have that kind of bump,
you know, right before their shoulder.
It's like extension of the collarbone.
Yeah, exactly.
That'll get really sore.
Sometimes it gets separated.
And you'll know that if you have real, if you have heart trouble putting
an arm like a cross your body, like you're going to lay down on it.
If that hurts really bad, then a lot of times that's AC joint pain.
And if that's separated, not much you can do other than strengthen.
That's one. Yeah. I, you know, I might try some dynamic flexibility for my shoulder
to start off.
I might do some prone cobras, some movements like that,
I think, before I start my lifts and see if that helps out
a little bit, because that kind of targets
that shoulder scapular retraction and depression
at the same time.
You want to do something real.
And then when you do your pull downs, like
Sal was talking about earlier, they should be really, really lightweight to where your
focus is being on the squeeze and retract.
Yeah, I wouldn't even do a pull down. Actually, with this with a lot of shoulder issues,
you'd want to focus on the horizontal straight C to row.
Yeah, because what happens when they're doing a pull down, I can guarantee you right now.
She's fighting against that. Yeah, and her shoulder blades are probably
the ones to dislocate, right?
Well, their shoulder blades are shrugging, probably rolled
forward.
She's probably to cave down.
And if it's bicep tendon, that's kind of a bad position
for the bicep when you're pulling down that way sometimes.
So yeah, I would go rows, definitely rows.
But here's a funny thing about all joints.
OK, here's a crazy thing.
Here's a little cheat code for any joint in your body.
Find out or learn the most optimal way it should move.
And almost every rehab you have to do for that joint,
regardless of the injury,
all go centers around getting that.
Try and keep you there.
So whether you tell your A, C, L, your PCL, your MCL,
you have issues with your Patel,
or whatever, strengthen your hips
and getting good hip mobility
is gonna help with the shoulders.
If you get the shoulders to track probably
with the shoulder blade drops back and pinches back
and everything's moving the way it should,
that helps pretty much any problem with your shoulders.
That's rotation, all that stuff.
So for all your trainers that are listening right now,
if you just understand that,
like you understand optimal function for a joint,
that's your cheat code, my friend.
Your clients come in with pain.
That's usually the answer to fix it many times.
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