How do I know I'm working my delts vs. fucking up my rotatory cuff? Should my shoulders be tight and up, or should they be slouched?
I don't know to hit my shoulders and it's driving me nuts.
Not confusing this with traps, I can definitely hit/feel my traps working.
Why would you abuse your traps instead of gently making love to them ?
Bumping this thread I need an answer to this stalling hard on ohp
I feel no real burn in my shoulders either. Always feel like im just destroying my shoulder
bump for interest (not op)
>>36488051
I mostly do lateral raises and shit like that for shouldies bud, not sure I can help you.
There's probably some shit on youtube if you look.
>>36488236
>Bumping this thread I need an answer to this stalling hard on ohp
thanks
>>36488051
you'll have to excuse my lack of knowledge of the technical names for things but I'll try. Source is a video I saw a few years ago but since haven't been able to find again.
your shoulders should be wherever they naturally want to go. If you start trying to force them up or down during a movement, you risk injury. For example, when raising the arms towards above your head along your sides ( as though doing lateral raises or pullups) you can pinch your humerus against a little protusion on the collar bone(?, the other bone right there next to it in the shoulder).
This protrusion varies in size between different people and so different people can perform the same movement, ie raising the arms, and experience different levels of discomfort/pain. This generally happens if you are trying to keep your shoulders down or packed while raising your arms. Allowing the shoulder to naturally lift with the arms will avoid this in most cases.
>>36488359
here's a pic. The protrusion isn't shown because it's not technically a bone but more of an imperfection. It would be on the acromion I think. It normally increases in size as we age too so older people have a reduced range of painfree motion which is partly due to things like this.
