POST DELTOID MUSCLE

I want to talk Post Delt's for a second. Personally, this is my favorite muscle to train. Sounds weird but no one ever really trains this muscle. You see people in the gym doing alot of internal rotation very rare for them to do external rotation. Think about your everday actions, your normal reaching up or inward for items. You rarely reach sideways and almost back wards. That muscle is 95% of the time deconditioned on my clients. The huge muscle meat heads in the gym included. Ok ok, so why is it so important? This is the muscle that slows your other shoulder muscles down when in action. Lets say your throwing a pitch...what muscle keeps your arm from flying back all the way and straining? Its your post delt, same as throwing a punch. It can also be a power house with the forward motion. My point is you need to train this muscle...

There are a few different exercises you can do to get this muscle in shape, try these out. Use very small weight if you have never tried this before. This muscle is tiny tiny and will get tired very quickly.

• External Rotation Lying ( lay on your side, elbow in your hip, hold the dumbell like a hammer curl and rotate down and back not moving your elbow off your hip)
• Standing with Cable ( hold the hand of the cable, arm bent and elbow in the hip start to rotate away from your body)
• Standing Ext Rotation ( Standing up hold the dumbell like you are about to do a military press, rotate your arm down and back again)

If you have any questions on these exercises check out www.exrx.net for pics and vids


Have a great weekend everyone and stay safe out there! DO WORK you rockstars!