How to Fix Shoulder Pain Pressing Movements?
There have been times during my training when I've experienced terrible shoulder pain while performing bench press or push-ups.
It's a weird pain you feel deep down in the front of the shoulder.
Almost like a stabbing pain.
It's not your chest or your triceps.
It's deep in the shoulder, slightly towards the front.
Have you felt it before?
What is it, and how do you fix it?
4 Key Reasons Why You Struggle With Push-ups.
I used to be terrible at push-ups.
My upper body horizontal pushing strength was one of my biggest weaknesses.
I grew up playing sports like Aussie Rules Footy, Soccer, Tennis and Cricket. None of which require significant horizontal pushing strength.
I also competed in endurance sports for a number of years with the focus of swimming, cycling and running. My leg strength and upper body pulling strength has always been stronger than my pressing strength.
But that all changed when I started training in the gym, lifting weights, building strength and getting ripped.
It wasn't until I started training in the gym that I realised how weak my bench press, push-ups, and dips were.
I sucked.
So, I went to work.
How to Increase Core Strength with this Single Movement.
Are you a gymnastic skill seeker who struggles to maintain the hollow body shape in movements like push-ups, chin-ups, handstands, back and front levers?
We often hear coaches telling their clients to "contract your core", "brace your abdominals", or "get tight."
What do these cues actually mean?
Do we breathe in?
Do we breathe out?
Do we crush walnuts between out but cheeks?
How do we increase our midline tension and stop our lower back arching in gymnastic movements that require a tight hollow body shape?
The most critical movement its………
How to develop the strength to perform gymnastics skills?
One of the things we often see with gymnastics skill seekers who are trying to progress through their gymnastics movements is a lack of strength strength through a full range of motion.
What dose it mean to lack strength in full range of motion?
Let's use the ring muscle-up as an example.
6 Steps to Mastering the Push-up
The push-up is one of the most common bodyweight exercises in the gym, but are you doing them properly? How many strict gymnastics push-ups can you do? How many should you be aiming for? When you're ready to stop being weedy and start being strong, you can begin by accomplishing a strict gymnastics push-up.
In bodyweight training and gymnastics, the push-up is viewed as an entry-level upper body pushing exercise. The strict push-up is used to build strength and movement awareness for more advanced pushing movements such as dips, ring dips, handstand push-ups, planche push-ups, and more. Mastering the strict push-up with perfect technique is an essential step in the journey of bodyweight training. Although the push-up is often seen as a foundation movement, there are push-up variations that can challenge even the strongest athletes - we'll save that for another post.