I totally agree with carsonbrady10, same thing happened to me. I tried to re-set the balance doing more rows and no bench and it got worse…turkish get ups solved it…
ways to deal with this problem. I think much of what has been said is correct. 1) paying attention to posture is important. It’s more important to pay attention to it while training so as to recruit the muscles properly. Doesn’t do much good to row with out properly setting the scaps(depressed and retracted). Most shoulder issues are due to protraction and elevation. 2) In my experience, if you are pressing, you should do some form of scap training. Rowing is not a direct relation to benching, but it helps. I have alot of throwing sport athletes to band squeezes(scap retraction while depressing). Too many people try to isolate supraspinatus and infraspinatus via external rotation only to have problem flare up again. 3) It can be argued that it’s fairly important to keep both length-tension and agonist/antagonist relationships from getting too far from norms so as to reduce injury potential. My fix, stretch, prehab, and train agonist/antagonist relationships. Thats been succesful for my athletes. Been training football players for 15 yrs, only 2 ac joint problems. Thats just my two cents.
What if you care about the rowing more than the benching (not for track).
What would balance the rowing?
Based on the discussion here, I’m guessing there is a great chance it’s not benching.
push ups for alot of kids. Allows for a full range of motion while activating assistors and stabilizers. If your program is designed to affect mulitiple planes of movement, pays attention to proper posture, and prioritizes flexibility, you should have few imbalance problems. The greatest problem I see in programs is prioritizing too much of certain movements both via volume and sequence. We all want performance, but if you increase injury potential, is it worth it?
another question, if you do bench, will floor press take out too much of the elastic component that it will make the lift “less specific” with regards to sport, especially sprinting, or dynamic exercises such as throwing or other types of sport movement?
I am a fan of full ROM but I make exceptions with throwing sport athletes. Sometimes people get too preoccupied with the transfer of exercise to sport. I don’t want to piss of the functional training guys, but very little you do in the weight room has a very direct transfer. Even the speed of olympic lifts pales to the speed of movement in sport. Our athletes have lots of success with hybrid of WSB and CFTS. It’s obviously tailored to individual sport needs. I just do what I find works with a given athlete. I may have things plotted out, but I see a kid either hyper or hypo performing and may adjust up or down. We all like the science of periodization, but there is also the art of knowing when to alter things regardless of what is planned. With this in mind, not all exercises are for all people.
So do you think that it doesnt matter if you dont have the dynamic component of doing full bench press rather than the static floor/rack press?
So do you think that it doesnt matter if you dont have the dynamic component of doing full bench press rather than the static floor/rack press?