Rotator Cuff Injury

[moondg29]

A friend of mine recently strained a few ligaments because his bicep/delts/traps were too over-developed for the size and strength of his rotator cuff.

He won't be able to train most of his body for a long time, so this is obviously a concern of mine. I always thought that the rot. cuff was being trained when you trained the shoulder, yet my friend worked his shoulders a lot and still got this injury.

Do you guys do specific excercises for your rotator cuffs? Or do you feel that my friend's case is very unique, and that most people workout their r. cuffs?

[Superman]

You need to work your cuff specifically, they won't get worked significantly from training our shoulders.

And I'm to lazy to explain all the exercises.

[moondg29]

That's all I was looking for man. Thanks.

Would throwing in 1 specific cuff excercise at the end of my shoulder/bi workout be enough?

[Superman]

I would do 2 exercises

1 internal rotation exercise and 1 External rotation exercise.

[tarun_s]

superman, how did you get in the red so bad? i'm too lazy to go through all your previous posts.

[Superman]

superman, how did you get in the red so bad? i'm too lazy to go through all your previous posts.

Cute

[piportil_l4]

RC gets GOOD work with Behind The Neck pulldowns and presses . Also with up right rows (rows to the chin)

[cssprophet]

Some good info about shoulder health:
http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=1053531
http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=1055409

Also with up right rows (rows to the chin)

Check out Shoulder Saver #16 on the second link (Part II).