The Bill Hartman Podcast for The 16% Season 7 Number 9 This week’s topics: Narrow ISA foundations Athletes with Scoliosis Narrow ISA with compressive strategies Coffee ’n’ Coaches: rotator cuff “strengthening” Cross Connect Coaching Cues
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Q & A for The 16% – Strategies for Limited Shoulder External and Internal Shoulder Rotation
@neurocoffee to the rescue this morning! Here’s a great case of a wide ISA with a lot of compressive compensatory strategy to overcome. From Tommy: I’m a wide ISA individual who through years of hard exercise and too many extension based activities got pretty deep into the compensatory patterns. I’m limited in hip & shoulder […]
Q & A for The 16% – Rotator Cuff and Scapular Muscle Activity – Yielding and Overcoming Represented
Question: I was just reading through “The role of shoulder muscles is task-specific” by Boettcher et. al (2010, Journal of science and medicine in sport) which found that in 90 degrees of shoulder abduction: – trapezius and serratus EMG activation increased with isometric external rotation – trapezius and serratus activation dropped to nearly zero with […]
Why Does Your Shoulder Hurt When You Bench Press?
You want a big chest and a big bench press to go with it. Placing progressive demands on a muscle is a requirement for strength (aka force production) and hypertrophy (muscle growth). The consequences are bigger chest muscles and more weight on the bar. This can be a good thing. BUT there can be undesirable […]
Q & A for The 16% – Using a cable fly and one arm cable pulldown to expand the rib cage
Question from Drew: With respect to a wide ISA individual focussing on Anterior-to-Posterior expansion of the thorax, I would be keen to see you execute exercises such as: • An eccentric focused pec fly • An eccentric focused pull down I am Interested in your set up and execution of these exercises. In this video: […]