rotator cuff exercises

[nemesis712]

anyone have any exercises that trains and strengthens the rotator cuff specifically.

[Hizzie]

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=895397

Post #30 and #34.

[DavidL913]

L-fly are nice.

[oldmanmarley]

Look it up on exrx.
I don't know the names of the exercises, but I'll try to describe some briefly.
Grab an EZ-bar with minimal weight on it and hold it at shoulder height with your upper arms parallel to the ground. Rotate your upper arms so that the bar comes from even with your neck to above your head. This is external rotation.
Any exercise in which you mimic the motion of arm wrestling is an example of internal rotation.

But exrx will give you a better idea of what to do.
Or you could use the search function.

[Sick Puppy]

Search function is your friend, but since I've spent all day reading up on this very subject...

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=11233044
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=885752
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=529968
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=924052
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=985518

Braindx and Papi93 appear to be authorities on this, and the reference to www.intens************ is a good 'un. I'll be using these this week on my RC- pretty minor, but been hanging about for years and is holding me back, so it's time I sorted it out.

Hizzie's exercises look pretty useful too, so I'm throwing them in as well- thanks Hizzie!

[tonester]

Here's a bit more.

http://www.t-nation.com/findArticle....le=280rotator2

This is informative even though he talks about overhead athletes.

http://www.elitefts.com/documents/overhead_athlete.htm

http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=1406720 go to lesson #9... VERY IMPORTANT.