You’re a big dog now and the good ol’ days of TWO heavy pressing days per week won’t work anymore. So, what’s the answer? My answer is to train shoulders specifically in a predetermined offseason with these weird exercises. They work!
Are you really utilizing your muscles at their maximum strength?
The proper resistance profile for strengthening external rotation should have less resistance in fully lengthened and fully shortened muscles and more resistance in mid-range lengthed muscles. While bands are great tools, they aren’t so great for strengthening rotator cuffs.
Rotator cuff exercises are important, useful, and extremely beneficial when these four points are taken into account.
A video explanation of the exercises I practice for the rotators.
What’s more important is bench pressing without messing up your shoulders in the process.
It’s essential to strengthen the external rotators because the internal rotators will grow exponentially stronger from so much throwing if nothing is done to correct the imbalance.
