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Originally Posted by Eric3237
In your case what you could do is try that exercise with very light dumbells and the arms starting parallel but only raising it as much as you can and then shrugging. And then work on increasing the height of the dumbells before your shrug. You could also combine that concept with the regular laterals sometimes where you start with arms at the side but then go up higher than you normal would for lateral. Except for that I would want you to use a good bit lighter weight than for the plain lateral (in scapular plane of course).
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Yeah, I understand this. I just tried it with no weights and I can tell this will help by adding some more shoulder work.
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Originally Posted by Eric3237
If the shoulders are being that stubborn it would be great if you could hook up with a pysiotherapist who knows about lifing. I know that may not be possible. If so though the questions would be what else can you do to ensure that scapular mobility is up to par? How do you assess that and know when it is time to start specific strenghening of the external rotators? Since I am not right there with you it's hard for me to know what is going on.
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I'll look into this. If you remember, I had the perfect guy, Dr.Lee, the bodybuilder chiropractor, but he left the area to take a job down in Florida. It's probably time to go back to my primary doctor who originally diagnosed my impingement. He did say I should go back if I didn't improve in a few months. Maybe he can refer me to someone more specialized.