How To Prevent Your Rotator Cuff From Wearing Out

Working a desk job is not the best thing for your posture. Yet, so many of us are bound to desks and are suffering from the nasty effects of poor posture.

To further complicate the situation, modern day people are also fatter than before.

Now this presents a serious challenge: how do you negotiate the desperate need to exercise while having a subpar posture? After all, if you begin a serious exercise program with bad posture an injury will happen.

And recall that shoulders are extremely prone to injury. So here is how to prevent your shoulders from being in danger:

1. Don’t press all day: Now the standard bench press has become a rite of passage amongst gym goers. Unfortunately, the bench press is also a very risky exercise in terms of shoulder and rotator cuff health. Only do the standard barbell bench press sparingly.

2. Work your back till the cows come home: To counterbalance the shortening of your pushing muscles, you should work your back hard. Row, row and row some more for best results. Rowing motions will work the muscles that become long and weak while working from a computer.

3. Be careful with the military press: And with any other type of overhead press. You see, some people are born with very little space in their shoulder joint through which delicate tendons pass. If you have little space and proceed to press overhead, you could potentially tear a tendon.

4. Loosen up your chest: A great way to do this is with deep, intense tissue massage. It will hurt a little, but at least you will know that you are increasing the space under your acromion where the rotator cuff tendons live. A loose chest will really help reverse the tightening effects of sitting.

The shoulder has to be given special attention since it’s such a mobile structure. Thus, do not take the information in this article with levity.

Also, make sure you take action on this information today, don’t wait too long!

Writer Katherine Crawford, an exercise physiologist and former arm fat sufferer, instructs on sculpting exercises. Figure out how to get sexy and toned arms by exploring her blog with tricep toning movements right now!

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