Jeff Cavaliere

you know, leg swings and butt kicks and, you know, walking lunges.

And those are the drills that people will do prior to training that are both excitatory in terms of just the nervous system, but also helpful for just the general warm up the body because of the blood flow.

But from a muscle readiness standpoint, not impairing the performance while at the same time exploring the increased ranges.

When I was working with Antonio Brown, I remember like he would spend 20 minutes, 30 minutes on all dynamic work.

And I've never seen anybody spend that long on their dynamic work.

But like he said, he just didn't feel right and ready to go unless he did a lot of that.

And I mean, you know, his dynamic stretching routine would be a workout for most everybody.

the shoulder has the most mobility in the body of any joint, but it's also got the least stability, right?

There's always that trade-off of mobility and stability.

So your stability comes from certain muscle groups.

And one of the ones that, the only muscle group that actually externally rotates the shoulder is going to be the rotator cuff, okay?

And unless you are devoted to training through external rotation and exercises that are going to externally rotate the shoulder, you're not training that function.

And it's so easy for us in everyday life, especially those that aren't training, to not ever really undergo any of those stresses that could be beneficial to counteracting what happens freely and naturally, which is internal rotation.

So when you think about the imbalance created just by nature and how we live our lives, internal rotation far, far, far outweighs external rotation.

So you need to address it.

And the reason why you need to address it is because you need to normalize those biomechanics of the shoulder if you want their long-term health.

And one of the functions of the shoulder is to raise our arm up over our head.

And if we do that from an internally rotated position, we're going to have a higher likelihood of creating stress inside that joint.

In order to get normal mechanics and free up the joint maximally inside, you need to externally rotate as you raise the arm up.

So if your muscles aren't firing and they're not necessarily