#shoulder stabilization

[gymaaholic]

Neck Pain Relief Shoulder Stabilization Workout

A very effective routine to help you release neck stiffness, and increase shoulder mobility to prevent neck pain in the first place. Take your time and focus on quality reps and stretches. Repeat this circuit 1-3 times in the morning or when you feel shoulder tightness.

Workout available in the Gymaholic Training App: https://www.gymaholic.co/training/workouts/410731/neck-pain-relief-shoulder-stabilizer-workout

[jedkobernusz]

Why My Food Intake Does Not Matter

Why My Food Intake Does Not Matter

I eat food for energy use not for taste. That’s why my food intake does not matter. In college I had to track my calories for a month. It was a giant pain in the a$$. However, it was the best experience to gain awareness of what I put in my mouth.

(The cookies in the picture are Lenny & Larry’s Complete Cookie and they are AMAZING. Here’s the link: https://www.lennylarry.comhttps://www.lennylarr…

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[redsgonnalift-blog]

Last week.

So I neglected to write last week.  At all.  And it isn't because I wasn't working out or because of my chronic shoulder injury (trigger-point therapy with heat is a godsend) or because I was doing badly.  I PR-ed a few times this past week.  So why didn't I write, if I was getting/doing better?

Because everything felt HARD. Every mile felt like the first mile I had ever run, every lift felt like it could be my last.  My legs felt like stones, my bad shoulder felt like lead, and I honestly had one of the roughest weeks of my Crossfit experience.  From that, I've tried to pull the positives I'm taking away:

1. I am not acutely injured, I am dealing with a chronic issue and CAN perform most lifts IF I do them at a light weight and pay massive attention to form.  This goes for cleans, push-press, and most overhead lifts.  The only lifts I'm not gunning for right now are ones that lock out the arms (OHS, snatch) because they put a lot of strain on the part of my rotator cuff that needs love, attention and ibuprofen.

2. I am harder on myself than I should be.  Seriously.  Forgive yourself during a workout.  You did a rep and your form slipped?  That sucks, but you just did TWENTY-FOUR with near-perfect form!  Those hang-ups make hard workouts so much harder than they need to be.

3. Bad workouts/days/weeks are going to happen and everything is going to suck.  It's going to be hard to put my shoes on, much less run a mile for time.  It isn't going to suck less because I focus on the suck and man, did you know your shoulder could interfere with your running, because that is just WEIRD.  It's going to suck less because I focus on the fact that regardless of the suckiness, I dropped 3 minutes off my last recorded mile time for Crossfit.  It's going to suck less because I actually jumped my box jumps instead of stepping up.  

I had a really good period of time where Crossfit was easily progressing, and I took for granted that sometimes that won't be the case.  This week my goal is to be more positive and forgiving of myself while I keep prepping for my race.  Which is weird, because this is the first week in a long time that my goal hasn't been specifically to clean up my diet or exercise more.  It feels weird, but in a good, positive way.

[claireabuan]

Shoulder Stabilization

These two muscles assist in supporting your shoulder girdle -- allowing the release of over worked neck muscles & trapezius :

1. Serratus Anterior : wraps from the top 9 ribs to its insertion on the scapulae from the inside

  p 162, The Key Muscles of Yoga, Ray Long (Bandha Yoga Publications, 2005)

2. Rhomboids : connects the scapulae with the midline of the back 

p 157, The Key Muscles of Yoga, Ray Long (Bandha Yoga Publications, 2005)

PRACTICE : notice the sliding down capacity of the Serratus Anterior and the gliding outwards feeling of the Rhomboids --> which draw your scapulae down, elongating your neck 

try in the below position :

p 165, The Key Muscles of Yoga, Ray Long (Bandha Yoga Publications, 2005)