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Assessing Shoulder Flexion in Overhead Athletes
Overhead athletes often struggle moving their arms overhead with clean movement of the shoulder blades and shoulder joint.
This can be due to one’s natural posture or from overactive muscles that are used when throwing._
In today’s video series we partner with Pat Suarez from Suarez Sports and Orthopedic Physical Therapy to discuss assessing and improving shoulder flexion in overhead athletes by learning how to check if you have an adequate amount of shoulder flexion and going over three mobility drills to lengthen your lats, trains your abs, and improve shoulder blade motion.
Assessing Thoracic Rotation For Throwing Athletes
Rotational sport athletes need adequate amounts of thoracic mobility in order to create the necessary hip and shoulder separation needed to transfer force from the lower body during throwing, swinging, and changing direction.
Maximize Your Off-Season Baseball Training (eBook Download)
As a baseball athlete your strength and conditioning program needs to be structured differently from other field sports like football, basketball, and soccer. This is because of the overhead and rotational demands baseball poses for your body. In our free ebook below we’ll go over the four key components you need to address in your baseball off-season strength and conditioning program to maximize your development during the fall and winter months, as well as assessments you can do to ensure your body is prepared to handle the demands of throwing throughout the season.
Modifying Traditional Barbell Lifts for Overhead Athletes
No one has ever gotten weaker from bench pressing, barbell overhead pressing, or back squatting. But many have been injured and have experienced setbacks from incorrectly performing or programming these lifts. When training with these exercises, an injury is most likely to occur for at least one of these four reasons:
- Incorrect Technique
- Poor Mobility
- Too Much Volume in the Gym (Too many sets & reps)
- Too Much Volume from Activities Outside of the Gym
The goal of this article is to educate you on why the overhead athlete is more susceptible to encounter injury from bench pressing, barbell overhead pressing, and back squatting. Once you understand the reasoning for avoiding these exercises, we’ll cover three exercises you should be performing instead that’ll allow you train similar muscles, while keeping your joints in safer positions.
Self-Assessments: Standing Shoulder Flexion
Learning how to perform self-assessments is a simple way to determine which exercises you’ll get the most benefit from and which exercises may be too risky. The assessment below is an easy way for you to check if your shoulders are ready to handle performing two of the most commonly utilized exercises on a weekly basis: the pull-up and the overhead press.
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