How to Do a Rotator Cuff Body Blade Workout

Video Transcript

"Welcome to Expert Village. My name is Dr. Ed Riffel. We are going to do some rotator cuff moves now. It is common to over use these especially for advancing weights or in the gym room. So the cuff muscles are supra spinatis, infraspinatis, teres minor are some of the major groups so we are going to be working on those. We are going to be rotating out this way and working on the cuff. This is getting some of the rotator cuff. Super spinatis we want to come up to about 20 degrees, rotate out. That is a commonly injured one. It can injure the tendon and requires surgical intervention some times so we want to keep this strong. Then we want to do a reverse rotation in this manner and I would work on these positions around one minute each position and advancing up to three to five as your fitness improves. Although strengthening these muscles will help the posture because we have a tendency to lean forward and then have a slumped over, rounded thoracic spine so this will help straighten that posture out."