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Shoulder experts advice needed!
October 01, 2014, 09:57:22 am
To all the shoulder experts on here, I was messing around on the scaffold bar at the works last night once my fingers were tired and am wondering:

- Why can I hang 1-armed (but arm must be locked at some sort of bend, even if just off straight) in a leg raise position for quite some time (15-20 seconds) when I am parallel to the bar but when I'm perpendicular to the bar I can barely do 5 seconds with two hands?

I'm guessing there's some massive shoulder instability going on there and I'd like to address it. Can anyone begin to explain why this may be?

Thanks!

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#1 Re: Shoulder experts advice needed!
October 02, 2014, 08:39:05 am
Nobody has advice for my creaky shoulders?

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#2 Re: Shoulder experts advice needed!
October 02, 2014, 08:42:48 am
Parallel position engages pec (and prob other muscle groups) in a stronger orientation, it's easier to do anything one armed in that orientation.

You'd probably tired your shoulders out during your session, try the comparison when you are fresh to check.

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#3 Re: Shoulder experts advice needed!
October 02, 2014, 09:01:12 am
Nice one Stubbs. It was the end of a pretty hard session, so your theory could indeed be correct!

So should one be aiming to one arm in a more front on position then or generally working both positions? I'm naturally fairly strong in the parallel position but struggle to even deadhang in a front-on position and that's on a massive bar!

I do have a collection of shoulder strengthening exercises that I'm going to start this week.

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#4 Re: Shoulder experts advice needed!
October 02, 2014, 10:42:14 am
How many problems involve being so side on to the rock that half of your torso is within the rock?

You need to train at least partially square on

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#5 Re: Shoulder experts advice needed!
October 02, 2014, 12:35:44 pm
That is a valid point Rodma.

Funny that most videos I've seen of people training 1-armers have been parallel. Front-on 1-armers would be nails!

 

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