Jump to content

Sorry!

This site is in read-only mode right now. You can browse all our old topics (and there's a lot of them) but you won't be able to add to them.

Rotator cuff exercises.. Are they neccassary?

mrgeeky

By mrgeeky
in Bodybuilding & aesthetics

 Share

Recommended Posts

mrgeeky Senior member

mrgeeky

Posted
Posted

Does every one do them, or only when trying to heal shoulder problems..

How important are they as a part of your training?

I have always ignored them but am adding them now to try to strenghten a problem a shoulder injury.. There has been some debate amoungs friends on how important it is or isnt to do them all the time..

Whats your guys thoughts on this please?

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Ronin Senior member

Ronin

Posted
Posted

Never bothered with them when I first started training...got an injury. Now I do them before every workout that involves upper body, and haven't had an injury since. Correlation? Definitely. Causation? Dunno, but I'm not taking the chance.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
denzil Member

denzil

Posted
Posted
Does every one do them, or only when trying to heal shoulder problems..

How important are they as a part of your training?

I have always ignored them but am adding them now to try to strenghten a problem a shoulder injury.. There has been some debate amoungs friends on how important it is or isnt to do them all the time..

Whats your guys thoughts on this please?

yeh good to warm them up for a few mins before a workout to prevent injury, i do the same with wrists as i have pretty shit wrists prone to constant injury.. always good to put a few mins into stretching and warming up before working out.

most common injury would stuffing yur rotatr cuff or wrist imo

Link to comment
Share on other sites
severe Senior member

severe

Posted
Posted

After an injury, I do them now. Heat them up before hand. I see that Dorian Yates recommends them too, before benching. They can't hurt, and if all they do is get the blood flowing, it has still got to be good for you.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
FellowshipOfTheRon Veteran member

FellowshipOfTheRon

Posted
Posted
Does every one do them, or only when trying to heal shoulder problems..

How important are they as a part of your training?

I have always ignored them but am adding them now to try to strenghten a problem a shoulder injury.. There has been some debate amoungs friends on how important it is or isnt to do them all the time..

Whats your guys thoughts on this please?

yeh good to warm them up for a few mins before a workout to prevent injury, i do the same with wrists as i have pretty shit wrists prone to constant injury.. always good to put a few mins into stretching and warming up before working out.

most common injury would stuffing yur rotatr cuff or wrist imo

good call; train the forearms, train the rotator cuffs. can lift better after warming up the rotators adequately too and it's no secret how big a difference forearm(/wrist) strength can make to most of your upper body exercises. rotator exercises at beginning, forearms at the end

theres really no reason not to do the rotators, doesn't even take long (couple sets with peanut weights and its over) and is sort of like insurance for your shoulders. just consider how much action you'll miss out on & for how long should you screw up that rc

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Dinahlady Senior member

Dinahlady

Posted
Posted
Does every one do them, or only when trying to heal shoulder problems..

How important are they as a part of your training?

I have always ignored them but am adding them now to try to strenghten a problem a shoulder injury.. There has been some debate amoungs friends on how important it is or isnt to do them all the time..

Whats your guys thoughts on this please?

yeh good to warm them up for a few mins before a workout to prevent injury, i do the same with wrists as i have pretty shit wrists prone to constant injury.. always good to put a few mins into stretching and warming up before working out.

most common injury would stuffing yur rotatr cuff or wrist imo

+1 always warm them up even just with a light dumbell before chest or shoulders, but especially chest. just get the blood to them thats all. I feel so much better after if i do this. if I forget chest day usually = shoulder aches for a few days. I don't really do any proper work on them though other than that.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
severe Senior member

severe

Posted
Posted

and I did bench tonight WITHOUT rotator exercises, and felt my old pain in the shoulder emerging, and just on a 90kg warmup set.

Normally I don't notice it till I get past 110.

So, the anecdotal evidence seems to point to it being beneficial.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
nate225 Veteran member

nate225

Posted
Posted
Does every one do them, or only when trying to heal shoulder problems..

How important are they as a part of your training?

I have always ignored them but am adding them now to try to strenghten a problem a shoulder injury.. There has been some debate amoungs friends on how important it is or isnt to do them all the time..

Whats your guys thoughts on this please?

yeh good to warm them up for a few mins before a workout to prevent injury, i do the same with wrists as i have pretty shit wrists prone to constant injury.. always good to put a few mins into stretching and warming up before working out.

most common injury would stuffing yur rotatr cuff or wrist imo

good call; train the forearms, train the rotator cuffs. can lift better after warming up the rotators adequately too and it's no secret how big a difference forearm(/wrist) strength can make to most of your upper body exercises. rotator exercises at beginning, forearms at the end

theres really no reason not to do the rotators, doesn't even take long (couple sets with peanut weights and its over) and is sort of like insurance for your shoulders. just consider how much action you'll miss out on & for how long should you screw up that rc

THIS

Link to comment
Share on other sites
mrgeeky Senior member

mrgeeky

Posted
  • Author
Posted
i bet 80% of the people who 'warm up' rotator cuffs are actually doing working sets on them.

same goes for bad technique

i got one sore rotator cuff now.. not sure exactly what the problem is..

I do a dumbell raise with my arm locked straight out to the side and my forearm - hand pointing straight ahead and only moving foremarm, I raise dumbell up and down.. I can only raise 4 kg.. Anymore than that and it gets too sore.. I do this every second day.. Im hoping that the pain will slowly subside and it will start to strengthen.

The hope is I'll slowly be able to lift more an more pain free until its fixed.

Cant help but wonder if Im doing the right thing though...

Funny thing is I went to the doc with an injury in this area just a few weeks back. . I got a scan.. Showed no tears etc. So he gave me a cortizone.

problem was solved..

Over the years I have had major shoulder problems / impingment. Fixed now through surgery on both shoulders..

But due to those shoulder problems I have had to neglect chest work.. Over the last few months I have slowly been able to push chest stuff harder and harder. I have been getting stronger and stronger.. But i still had to avoid incline stuff..

Well after the cortizone I tried incline dumbell presses..

I was feeling good and pain free. I thought, yay finally cured.

So I really started to push it.. Grabbed a couple of 30kg dumbells and started pushing out some reps.. Ok not a big weight by most peoples standards but remember I had virtually never done any incline stuff before so was surprised I could even push that..

But it was the wrong move.. I got to greedy.. I should have just used light weights and higher reps for starters..

I felt a really sharp pain in my shoulder while on an upward push.

Now Im thinking, have I torn it this time? What will the doc think if I go back after only a couple of weeks of just having had a scan and a coritzone and here I am asking for another scan.. lol

So decided I would just perserve with the rotator cuff strenghtening exercises for now and see where it leads.. If with in a few weeks I dont start getting some strength back in to my rotator cuff, I'll have to head back to the doc to get another scan.. STuff waiting for the health system.. Too long.. I'll pay for it myself again.. Doc visit and scan, over $200... Oh well!

Just thought i would share my little story..

Link to comment
Share on other sites
mrgeeky Senior member

mrgeeky

Posted
  • Author
Posted

Just for the hell of it, an update on my injury... Scan showed bursitis..

Thank friggen god.. If it had of been another tear I think I would have felt like shooting myself...

Hopefully a quick resolve and Im back in to proper training...

heh heh heh!

Link to comment
Share on other sites
 Share
Go to topic listing


  • Popular Contributors

    Nobody has received reputation this week.

×
×
  • Create New...