The thing about these exercises is they are supportive and you can think of them as "prehab". I know that is sort of a silly term since everything you do should be balanced and health...so in essence these movements are part of a balanced and health kinda thing. But the term "prehab" is, to me, a useful way of categorizing them so that you know how to throw them in.

On the variety standpoint, it's funny, because I really used to be a part of the "handful of good exercises" crowd. But that attitude after a good while, produced a lot of problems for me.

The truth is that I no longer believe that there is some small limit on how much variety is useful...just that you have to be able to tease out the specific things that are not useful to you.

You know when someone tells you that there are five or six useful exercises in the world, ask them how they deal with injuries. That will show you, most of the time, where they are at. Because they will inevitably not have any real clue about injuries and probably rely on the fact that when their bad advice catches up with people they are not longer in the picture and that person doesn't connect the two. What are you gonna do, knock on someones door ten years later and tell them that training with their philosophy ruined your shoulders? No case. The industry is free to fuck up as many shoulders as it wants in the LONG RUN. All a trainer has to do is try not to get you hurt RIGHT NOW. So the "variety is useless" crowd can keep on trumpeting that as much as they want.

Not that you are saying that, Ross, only that that is the extreme end of "only a little variety is useful".

With these exercises you can look at them as activation things. Do them light with high reps...even up to 20 (or more sometimes). Facepulls maybe not so high..

You can add weight of course later but if you use them right you can just sprinkly them in with hardly any adjustments. You don't really have to count them as part of your allotment. So say you have a day with 5 movements....this other stuff doesn't count toward that. Just like you don't count your mobility work or stretching.

Except for facepulls which can end up really working the hell out of your upper back of course. But you can still do them after anoter pull. Like I frequently do them after pullups (or pulldowns). Well not directly after but you know what I mean.

I've written too much and have to get off the computer...I'll drop you some links a bit later.

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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.