Do gymasts do any rotator Cuff work?

Started by Kamali Downey, January 8, 2009 · 1 Replies · 4,547 Views

Kamali Downey

Coach,

do gymnasts do any sort of direct rotator cuff strengthening or pre-hab type work at all?

I didn't see any in the 1st book (love the book and videos btw) and most of the exercises seem to target the internal rotators (pecs, lats)

(I imagine if it was addressed, it would be in forthcoming Liquid Steel™) ??

Anyways, I was just wondering if your athletes do any kind of external rotation work at all and wondered what type of body weight exercises would directly target the rotator cuff

Thanks

Blairbob

Those wall slides should be an example of external rotator work.