Shoulder Training Help??

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Hey new to the fourm and have a question.

I play softball/baseball and over the years my throwing arm is not as strong as it used to be. Just out of HS I was misdiagnoised with a torn rotator cuff by a very good sports doc. I figured I am not going to make a living playing ball so I decided against the surgery. It didnt hamper daily activities. Went to the same doc 3 years ago and he finally took a MRI and found no tear just tendons where stretched allowing the ball of my shoulder to rub on my rotator cuff. Did some therapy and it helped but then stopped.

Here is where I am now, my shoulder does hurt when really throwing the ball hard. Hurts for mabey a minute after throwing and then fine. I can really tell that my shoulder is very weak compaired to my other shoulder. I am wanting to use some resistant bands to help in my strengthening but also wanting to shed about 10-15lbs also.

I have found some of these in kits on the net but would like to hear mabey what some of you have used. I seen Bodylastics has had some good reviews and also the SPRI line also.

Just want some opinions on this.

Thanks
 
some help

Mr LV,
The diagnoses of your doc wasn't necessarily wrong, depending on the time between the diagnoses and the MRI, your rotator cuff could have simply recovered. Your rotator cuff muscles (Supraspinatus,Infraspinatus,Subscapularis, Teres minor.) are used to prevent the head of the humerus moving upwards when you raise your arm. This means that when you throw a ball you will hit your acromion (bone on the end of your shoulder) with the bone of your upper arm. The pain you feel are the tissue structures being pinched. Clearly not a good thing, as this could lead to another tear.
in the exercises you do, you will need to train your rotator cuff muscles.
A few good exercises that you can do are:
Bandpull 1: Tie an elastic to a pool, bend your arm 90 degrees, lift your elbow to shoulder height and inline with your shoulder (to the side). Your fist should be pointing towards the ceiling. Make a rotation in the shoulder, pulling the band downwards. (internal rotation)
Bandpull 2: Bend your elbow 90 degrees and lock your elbow in against your side. pull the band across your body without moving your elbow (external rotation)
straight arm lat pull down.: Grab the bar and try to pull the weights up using your shoulders, your arms stay straight.

There are many more exercises that you can do and most of them will involve internal and external rotation. It doesn't really matter what you use as long as there is a resistance. My suggestion is to just buy a cheap band for a few dollars.
Now Losing weight is a completely different ball game and i am sure that you can find plenty of advise for this somewhere else in this forum

hope this helps
 
Yeah good post, not sure about a few dollars though :eek:

Some come in different colours depending on the strength of the elastic bands, try to choose one your comfortable with and then you can continue to progess..
 
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