Jeff Cavaliere

The number one thing people do here to cheat, and we talk about this, we talked about it in the gym quite a bit, your body...

knows how to compensate.

Like if you ever want to know what you're doing wrong, just look at yourself in the mirror and then look and see what your body's trying to do.

You realize the compensation is the direct opposite of what it's not doing, what the job is avoiding.

So when the rotator cuff is trying to externally rotate the shoulder, the way I can avoid that is just

lift my elbow away from my side.

I can get my hand from here to here if I raise my arm out to the side, but now I'm using my delt to do it and not the rotator cuff.

So keep that elbow pinned to your torso.

So you got to keep the elbow pinned to the torso.

So the easiest thing you do is just put something underneath your arm, a little towel, fold the towel, put it underneath there, and then do the exercise.

And if you find that your towel is dropping to the floor, it's obviously because you're lifting your shoulder, your elbow away from your body, and you're using the wrong muscle.

There's different applications of it.

You can do it before a workout.

So if I'm going to press, like let's say bench press, I could use this as a good warmup before I go press, almost as a neuroactivation technique to make sure those muscles are alert and firing so I can make sure that they're working when I go to press to keep my shoulders back in a better position.

And especially as I raise my arms up in an overhead press, I can make sure that

they're alert, they're fired up, they're willing to contribute to keep that head centered when the arm's going up overhead.

So I like to do them on pressing days as a neuroactivator before I train, and it's serving as a warmup too, or on other days, again, treating it as my special program, which is what I have to do because of all the issues that I've had with my shoulders.

Again, this one didn't come necessarily from bad training, but just dumb decisions, trying to throw a baseball back with the Mets.

I lost a bet.

kind of famous at this at this point but like a player bet me that i couldn't throw the ball from well let's rephrase that i bet that i could throw the ball from right field to third base on the fly because it just looked rather short from where i was but it's actually a lot longer and only the better arms in baseball can actually do that really easily so i have no idea why i thought i could