Plyometrics!

[OakLeaf]

Just remember not to make that the only upper-body work you do.

In spite of the cautionary posts I put up here when I was doing the 100-pushups program, I didn't do an equal number of pull-ups, dips, internal/external rotations and reverse flyes, and wound up really screwing up my rotator cuffs and most of the muscles around them. Nerve impingement under the pec minor and everything. Nothing five or six intense neuromuscular massages plus all kinds of self-treatment with stretching, strengthening and a Thera-Cane couldn't cure, but I would've done better not to get myself there in the first place.

[Susan Otcenas]

Just remember not to make that the only upper-body work you do.

Coach gave me an upper body routine to do, which is what I follow each time I go to the weight room:

Seated Rows
2 sets narrow
2 sets wide

Lat pull downs
3 sets

chest press
2 sets

pull overs
2 sets

shoulder press
2 sets

tricep dips (standing)
1 set

tricep extensions
1 set

bicep curls
1 set

Between some of the sets I work in some abdominals.

Susan

[tulip]

Good point, Oakleaf. Since I don't go to a gym, I do other exercises, Pilates, and yoga at home. Am I missing something? Probably, but it's the best I can do. I've had rotator cuff problems before, and they are no fun. I developed problems while being under the eye of a coach (not a very good one, evidently) at a gym, doing weights that were too heavy, too fast, and too soon. If anything I err on the side of not doing enough of anything, as opposed to doing too much of something.