Shoulder Exercise – Overhead Medicine Ball Pass
April 3, 2012
Overhead Medicine Ball Pass
Shoulder exercises can get boring. Every time you push or pull a weight, you’re performing a shoulder exercise. Booooring !!! So sometimes, I like to try something different … add some functionality to my shoulder workout. Here’s a shoulder exercise I began doing recently. It’s a plyometric shoulder exercise and works your shoulders both concentrically and eccentrically.
Shoulder Exercise – Overhead Medicine Ball Pass
It’s very simple:
- hold a medicine ball in one hand
- laterally raise the arm holding the ball and toss the ball overhead
- reach above your head with your empty hand and catch the ball
- when you’ve stopped the balls momentum, repeat by throwing the ball back overhead
- 10 reps with each arm will make your shoulders tired.
Here are a few things to consider when doing this shoulder exercise:
- start with a light medicine ball (I used a 12lb ball in the video and it’s a good shoulder workout)
- it may make your biceps sore – I think it’s a result of catching the ball with your biceps in an extended position
- it’s a great exercise for hand – eye coordination
Give the Overhead Medicine Ball Pass a try and let me know what you think. If you have any questions, leave a comment and I’ll do my best to answer it.
Great New Website for Fitness Information
Please take a minute to check out MovementLectures.com – it’s a great new fitness / nutrition / motivation / rehab website and features lectures from some of the most respected names in the fitness industry. ( Disclosure – I am not affiliated with them in any way.)
However, I am affiliated with our Facebook page and would love to have you visit … and it’s full of shoulder information.
One final question – Did you check out the Rotater? Visit our video page to see how the Rotater can help your shoulder feel and perform better.
The Rotator Cuff – Shoulder Anatomy 101
February 14, 2012
What is the Rotator Cuff?
It doesn’t matter what you call it …
- the rotator cup
- the rotater cup
- the rotater cuff
- the rotating cuff
- the rotary cuff
….people want to know:
- What is the rotator cuff?
- Where is the rotator cuff?
- What does the rotator cuff do?
The Rotater Cuff Explained
Here’s a very good video explanation of the rotator cuff. This animation peels back the overlaying shoulder and chest muscles to expose the 4 muscles that make up your rotator cuff and goes on to visually explain the function of each rotator cuff muscle:
More Sources of Shoulder Information
If you haven’t visited our Facebook page, then here are some of the recent shoulder articles and videos you’ve missed:
The Arthrokinetic Reflex – Todd Hargrove
Glenohumeral Joint Preservation: Current Options For Managing Articular Cartilage Lesions In Young, Active Patients – Dr. Peter J. Millett
Pilates Scapular Stabilization Exercise – Video
Shoulder Shocker – Joe DeFranco
Shoulder Force Couples – How do They Function Throughout Rehab Exercises? – Mark Rice
The Rotator Interval: Pathology And Management – Dr. Peter J. Millett
Smurfette shoulder theraband rehab program – Video
Graston Technique and Chiropractic helps Back pain and Shoulder pain – Dr. Russ Jepson DC – Video
Exercise You Need to Do: Scap Push-up Into Yoga Push-Up – Matt Siniscalchi
Taking Care of Your Pitching Arm – David Lasnier
Don’t Forget About the Rotater
If you’re looking for a shoulder rehab tool you can use at home for your rotator cuff rehab, then don’t forget to check out the Rotater. It’s simple to use, affordable and works…PLUS the Rotater is guaranteed 100%.
Shoulder Pain Relief for Office Workers
February 1, 2012
Poor posture…it’s the curse of sitting at a desk all day (or all night). BUT, that’s your job … SO you get shoulder and neck pain. What can you do?
Can Relief from Shoulder Pain be this Simple?
Researchers in Denmark have discovered that performing a simple resistance band exercise, done for 2 minutes a day can “significantly” reduce shoulder and neck pain. Wow!!
- What is this “magic” shoulder exercise?
- What do you need to perform this pain relieving shoulder exercise?
Pretty simple stuff. No complicated exercise equipment. It looks like you can do it anywhere, anytime. BUT … does it really work? Does performing this shoulder exercise for a total of 10 minutes a week really reduce neck and shoulder pain? YOU tell me !! Give it a try and let me know what your results are.
More Great Shoulder Information Like This Article
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Rotator Cuff Tears – DukeHealth.org
How can I properly train my shoulders? – sportize.me
Baseball Shoulder Flexibility and Stretches – Video
Rotator Cuff Stretch & Strengthening – Active Isolated Stretching – Video
Sports Medicine in 140 Characters – Dr. David Geier
Injured Shoulders Affects Workouts, Fat Burning and Movements – Mark Dilworth
Balance Your Shoulder Strength and Build Power – Chad Waterbury
6 facts about Forward Head Posture – The PT Project
Frozen Shoulder – Video
Swimmers: Eight strength training mistakes to avoid – Sayco Performance Athletics
Join the Rotater on Facebook and get more great shoulder information and shoulder videos everyday.
Scapular Stretch for Shoulder Mobility
January 21, 2012
Most people tend to think of their shoulder in simple terms. I mean it’s just the joint where your arm bone ( the humerus ) meets your body … right? Well, yes …. in the most basic sense. To be honest, your shoulder is really made up of 4 joints:
- the Glenohumeral Joint
- the Acromioclavicular Joint
- the Sternoclavicular Joint
- the Scapulothoracic Joint
So, increasing the mobility of any one of these joints will increase the mobility of the entire shoulder region. In this video, Bucknell University Strength Coach, Jerry Shreck demonstrates how he helps his athletes increase their shoulder mobility by increasing their scapular mobility. He is working directly on the Scapulothoracic joint in this video:
To learn more about this shoulder stretching technique, please read Coach Shreck’s article – Manual Stretch to Increase Scapular Mobility.
More Shoulder Videos and Articles
Here are some of the most recent shoulder rehab and performance articles and videos we’ve posted on our Facebook page. Please join our community of active followers and contributors.
Cross Body, Shoulder, External Rotation – Video
PT-Supervised Exercises Trumps Home Rehab for Improved Shoulder Function Post-Surgery, Study Finds – ptproductsonline.com
Strength Exercise of the Week: Prone External Rotation – Eric Cressey
Tips to ensure (hopefully) a successful outcome after surgery – Dr. David Geier
Baseball Strength and Conditioning Programs: How Much Rotator Cuff Work is Too Much? – Eric Cressey
How to Treat Shoulder Injuries When You Can’t Get to a Doctor – Video – Dr. James Hubbard
Rotator Cuff Tears – Dr. John Post
Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Injection Therapy: A Musculoskeletal Panacea? – ptsportswellness.wordpress.com
The Rotator Cuff, Shoulder Injuries in Paddle Sports – Physiobench
Bamboo Bar Bench Press – Video
Exercises You Should Be Doing: Standing Half Press – Tony Gentilcore
Shoulder Exercises: Circles and Open Book – Video – Erson Religioso
To keep up with the latest and greatest new shoulder stretching, rehab and performance articles / videos … join the Rotater community on Facebook.
Shoulder Mobility – Curing the Hunchback
December 31, 2011
The Hunchback and Shoulder Pain
You do it! You know you do it! I do it, too …. I’m probably doing it right now … yeah, the “late night, I’m tired as crap, gotta keep working on this article” hunched back.
As we become more engaged online, we are becoming less engaged offline … less aware of our posture. It doesn’t matter what your addiction is:
- surfing the web via your desktop computer
- texting on your phone
- cruising along with your ipod
- chilling out on the latest tablet
…it’s all the same…you’ve become a hunchback. Your shoulders are rolled forward, your head is down and you have some seriously tense and painful shoulders.
How to Avoid Computer Related Shoulder Pain
- Take periodic breaks – get up and move … walk around.
- Learn to stretch those tight shoulder muscles – there’s got to be a million videos on YouTube demonstrating some of the shoulder stretches you can do almost anywhere .. even at your desk.
- Relax, meditate, breathe deep.
Shoulder Mobility – Take 2 and Call Me in the Morning
- Watch this video
- Give it a try
