If you need a quick boost, this 15-minute bodyweight workout will help strengthen muscles that depress the shoulder to keep tension out of your neck and help you raise your arms overhead more efficiently using a Yoga strap and mini ball. Weakness in these areas can cause shoulder impingement, mak...

If you need a quick boost, this 15-minute bodyweight workout will help strengthen muscles that externally rotate the shoulder to keep the rotator cuff healthier and maintain an overall better upright posture using a Yoga strap and mini ball.

You will notice it is easier to retract / draw the sh...

If you need a quick boost, this 15-minute bodyweight workout will help you improve posture using a series of extension-based isometric exercises with modifications given for anyone who has a hard time moving this way.

You will not need any equipment for this workout, although a blanket under th...

If you need a quick boost, this 15-minute bodyweight workout will help strengthen muscles that extend the shoulder and help you maintain an overall upright posture using a mini ball.

We start with retraction and extension of the shoulder, which will make it easier to keep good posture. We then...

If you need a quick boost, this 15-minute isometric workout will help strengthen muscles that abduct the shoulder in order to move the arm out to the side. These include the deltoids and associated rotator cuff muscles. Dumbbells will be used to push into as well as for resistance.

Weakness in...

This routine uses various Yoga Therapy techniques designed to improve strength in the muscles that cross the shoulder, rib cage, pelvis, and spine. You will learn about the importance of isometric resistance training is to shoulder health.

This routine begins with an exploration of shoulder an...

I loved doing this video, since I am a teacher at heart. However, we will also be moving the whole time as we learn several movements that are available to the shoulder joint. Discover how to evaluate your mobility / range of motion you have from right to left from a sitting and standing positi...

Yoga itself is an isometric practice using the principles of resistance training. Postures, or "asanas", are used in Yoga to create maximum health in the body for improved concentration and control. In this practice, the focus is to improve the integrity of the shoulder joint.

Using a chair as ...

If you have every suffered from a frozen shoulder, or have known someone who has, you know that it takes a very long time to recover from. The medical term for the frozen shoulder is "Adhesive Capsulitis". This condition is marked by stiffness and pain in the shoulder joint. It typically develo...

In this workout, we will perform several isometric exercises for the chest and shoulder in various stability ball positions. Also, we will combine concentric and eccentric contractions using dumbbells.

Start with the stability ball alone as a resistance to press into for purposeful isometrics. ...

Pickleball shoulder pain is a common injury from this popular sport. Quick shoulder joint movements are required to keep up with the moving ball. Muscles need to be able to contract efficiently on demand. Pickleball injuries to the shoulder can include rotator cuff tears, tendonitis, and bursit...

This strength training routine focuses on the anterior, middle, and posterior deltoid of the shoulder as well as the four rotator cuff muscles: the supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres minor, and subscapularis. These muscles work together to create a force couple to direct the upper arm bone (hum...

This quick 30 minute workout features a dynamic, fun, and challenging way to experience traditional and unique exercises that target the lower body like never before! The ball gets you off the floor, allows for smoother transitions between exercises, adds variety, and works the "core" in every e...

Simply speaking, chest muscles are used to push objects away from us Back muscles pull objects towards us. Exercises around these muscle groups are opposite in nature, as one works concentrically and one eccentrically to either shorten against a load or allow for more length to control the join...

The shoulder blade, clavicle, and upper arm (humerus) make up the four major joints of the shoulder, including its position on the rib cage. In this video, we will practice specific exercises that improve not only shoulder mobility, but also shoulder function to keep from injury. A chair and a ...