How To Fix Your Jacked Up Shoulders

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

Business, Training, Fitness, Health & Fitness, Paleo, Weightlifting, Nutrition, Crossfit

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🗓️ 11 January 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Jacked up shoulders holding you back? New's flash, you are not the only one. It turns out that shoulder pain and injuries are some of the most common of all dysfunctions for active individuals.

Just like most things we have come to learn and share with ya'll is that this is most likely a result of faulty movement patterns. You can go as hard as you want, and lift heavy things for days ..but the flip-side of that is that you have to take the time to focus on your movement. Believe it or not, it is also a good idea to take care of your joints with the same amount of focus you put into your WOD's ...a few minutes rolling around on a lacrosse ball ain't going to cut it.

So knowing that, we headed over to Ambition Athletics to interview one of our good friends, Max Shank. We chatted it up about movement, kettlebell training, and a bunch of other cool shit he is doing in his gym, and around the world with his workshops.

More importantly, we talked about the shoulder, how it operates, and how we can take care of it so we can go hard and still feel healthy and strong.

If you find this episode useful, Max has put together a resource for the Shrugged fam on taking care of your shoulders. You can find it at daily.barbellshrugged.com/maxshank

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0:00.0	It's the little tiny ball and socket on the end, which is the most mobile joint in your
0:04.5	whole body, and it's also the most vulnerable joint in your whole body.
0:08.0	But the problem is that joint functioning well is dependent on many other things that
0:14.4	are of a higher order consequence.
0:17.0	So what I mean by that is if you don't address breathing and core strength first, everything
0:23.2	down the chain toward that glenohumeral joint is going to be basically on a faulty foundation.
1:00.3	Well, we're going to barbell strike a Mike Bletsow here with Doug Larson, and we have our
1:03.7	guest, Mr. Max Shank, and he's an all-round nice guy, a lucky puncher, and has written
1:12.1	three books on strength and conditioning, owns ambition athletics where we're standing
1:16.9	right now.
1:18.4	And today we're going to be talking a lot about the shoulder because you have a book about
1:22.4	the shoulder.
1:23.4	I do have a book about the shoulder.
1:24.4	He's got books about other stuff too, and today we're going to be talking about the
1:28.3	shoulder, primarily because we suspect that you might be like us and counter shoulder
1:35.2	issues from time to time, especially if you're putting weight overhead regularly, or if
1:40.2	you move.
1:41.2	Ever.
1:42.2	You've heard of move before?
1:43.2	You've probably got shoulder issues.
1:44.2	Yeah, so you can really have a full shoulder.
1:46.2	Crossfitters weightlifters powerlifters, like everyone's got something, something shoulder-related
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