Reply With Quotewarm up properly and maintain flexability.
that will help to protect your joints. all of which you should look after.
rotators are the only big ones i can think of right now, but if you notice any problems with any joints, try to seek exercises to help them out.
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07-03-2005, 01:14 PM #1Functional Lifting = Life
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Protecting the rotator cuff and other areas
My cousin's husband came over last night for my birthday, and I was talking to him about lifting (as usual). He's been lifting for years now and I often go to him for advice because I can tell he really knows his stuff. He suggested that since I've been moving up in weights for things like DB presses that I do exercises to help strengthen (and protect) my rotator cuff (his was injured so he's basically trying to avoid that happening to me). He gave me a few ideas with internal rotations and some other exercsies to do a few times a week. I plan on doing them and taking his advice, but are there other areas of the body that are often susceptible to being underdeveloped and injured? If so, what are the best things to do to prevent injuries from happening to those areas? Thanks.
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07-03-2005, 01:28 PM #3Functional Lifting = Life
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Of course, but injuries can still occur. Does anyone know of any other common areas that should perhaps be strengthened separately?
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07-03-2005, 01:47 PM #4Ryan-Boro
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best thing to do to protect all your joints is as mentioned before.......warm up properly,maintain flexibility and also take some supplements like cod liver oil and glucosamine sulphate to keep the joints healthy and supple
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Two other areas that can become underdeveloped and cause injury would be rear delts and your hamstrings.
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Thanks, Rocco. I know the others were trying to be helpful and I appreciate your posts. Warming up and being flexible are a given, so the type of answer I was looking for was what Rocco gave. Thanks, everyone.
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Well I have a torn left rotator cuff right now. Not sure if it was caused by heavy incl bench or military presses or a combo of both. I see one thing that happens to a lot of people as i'm one of them. Skull crushers. I double tore the left tendon back around Xmas from doing skulls. So be careful there and not sure if there is a exercise to help strengthen the tendons around the elbows.
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