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.
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
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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
The One Arm Shoulder Press
November 12, 2011
I read a lot. I think reading is important … especially when you have a web-based business like ours. There are a wide variety of topics that interest me ..
- business
- marketing
- technology
- shoulder rehab and performance
- fitness
- kettlebells
- weightlifting
On any given day, I’m scouring the internet in search of information. Yesterday, my search led to an article by Dan John, titled “The One Arm Press”. Dan is something of a renaissance man … having a wide variety of information on a number of topics from religion to physical performance. To make a long story shorter, Dan’s article inspired me to post a video on YouTube showing a way to do the one arm press that allows you to easily and quickly add or remove weight so you can do both ascending or descending sets without spending lots of money. Here’s the video….
Be sure to stop by Dan’s blog and read his article on the one arm press to see why he thinks it’s such a great full-body exercise. Give my version of the one arm press a try and let me know what you think.
Facepulls with External Rotation…Thanks TRX!
August 16, 2011
Shoulder rehab exercises don’t have to be hard….and you don’t need to invest thousands of dollars in weights and equipment. The TRX Suspension Trainer is affordable, versatile and easy to use. Here are a couple of videos demonstrating how to use the TRX to perform Face Pulls with External Rotation…a great rotator cuff exercise.
…and here’s another view of the same exersice
The TRX Suspension Trainer is a super product that incorporates your body weight into the exercises. The possibilities are limitless.
