ROTATIONS FOR PREVENTATIVE

93. ROTATIONS FOR PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE If you were to rank the body's joints in terms of how prone they are to injury, the shoulders would probably place third behind the lower back and knees. In fact the shoulders may move up to the number one position in those who regularly lift weights. Years of heavy pressing movements (both for chest and shoulder training) can play havoc with the shoulder joints. In many cases the problem is not the large, outer deltoid muscle, but the smaller, underlying rotator muscles. These small muscles located on the scapula (shoulder blade) are prone to injury from repeated heavy pressing movements. Two ways to reduce the risk of damaging the rotators is to train them from day one, and to warm them up before doing any heavy pressing exercises.