Sentences with phrase «weak rotator»

But many of us, including tennis players, have relatively weak rotator cuff muscles.

When great demands are placed on a weak rotator cuff, the usual results are noticeable pressing and muscular imbalances and painful injuries.

Weak rotator cuff muscles is also a frequent problem for lifters.

Weak rotator cuff muscles tend to be one of the biggest problems for lifters.

Not exact matches

«When the serratus anterior muscles are weak, they contribute to neck problems, rotator cuff issues and scapular winging (damage to the long thoracic nerve of the shoulder),» Carnevale says.

Note that lowering the bar behind the neck can place undue stress on the rotator cuff and increase susceptibility to injury, especially if your shoulders are weak and untrained, so it's best to avoid it.

Imbalance between the three deltoid heads can lead to painful rotator cuff issues down the road, not to mention that having big front caps and weak rear delts will screw up your posture and make you look like a caveman.

Today, our rotator cuffs and upper back muscles are weaker than ever, and this common issue poses a serious threat in the gym, where many bodybuilders are looking to squat as heavy as possible and use overhead pressing to develop strong upper bodies, disregarding the fact that these two compound exercises require a very tight and stable upper back.

This move emphasizes the rotator cuff muscles, which are the weakest link in many lifters» shoulders.

If you're weaker than that, it's time to work on strengthening your rotator cuff by performing inwards and outwards rotations at least once per week.

Many studies have shown that weak scapular stabilizers lead to over-stressing the shoulder and increased rotator cuff compression (and the rotator cuff is the perhaps most injury - prone part of your shoulder complex).

Strength training experts and triathlon coaches always seem to be highlighting the injury - preventive and performance importance of tending to small, supportive muscles that are notoriously weak in endurance athletes, such as the shoulder's rotator cuff, the outer butt's gluteus medius, the small scapula muscles along the shoulder blades, and the abdominal, hip and low back region, or «core» (15).

A weak piriformis (and other associated deep hip rotators) can contribute to chronic knee problems and instability in standing poses, but it is easy to strengthen with careful attention to alignment in those same standing poses.

It is usually the external rotator cuff muscles or the muscles which rotate the shoulder joint outwards which are weak compared with the muscles which rotate the humerus inwards.

Another common problem at the hip is weak hip abductors and external rotators.

This routine targets the three most commonly weak and damaged areas of the body — the rotator cuff in the shoulders, the hips, and core (including the lower back).

So kind of a more simplistic terms this would mean that you have a weak butt and you would want to actually strengthen your hip abductors like the gluteus medius and the gluteus minimus and you would actually also wan na strengthen your femurs» external rotators.

For example, if I'm looking at someone from the back and they're running and I'm seeing that the hip is excessively tilting from side to side meaning at mid-stance your hip just kinda collapses and drops toward one side when you're running and that's accompanied by something like a heel whip, that's a pretty good sign that it's an external rotator or that it's an abductor weakness issue vs. it being genetic because it actually shows that you have weak hips whereas if I see that foot kinda rotating out a little bit but the hips are staying relatively level while you're running, then usually it's just the case where you have that genetic kinda femoral anteversion and it's not really an issue.

If you want to tune in weaker stations from towers in different directions, you'll probably need a rotator.