Tea Cup Movement

Well, posting a form check would be optimal, but I have nothing that needs checking right now (as you can see from my log). Therefore, I would like to hear your ideas on the following "Tea cup" movement:

I had a period when I used it. Good for shoulder mobility/prehab. I used it in my warmup every time I trained.

I'll use it on occasion when my shoulders are feeling stiff

Mats Trane said:

I had a period when I used it. Good for shoulder mobility/prehab. I used it in my warmup every time I trained.

Why'd you stop using it?

I didn't realy stop using them. I still do them once or twice a week. At the time that I was using them alot I had an issue with my right rotator cuff. I also like changing exercises. At the moment I'm using Kits stuff alot.

All I can say, since this is the first time I've seen this since watching old Kung Fu movies in high school, is that my bad shoulder (the right) is much less capable in this movement than my left, which I can almost do this perfectly with.

I will be using this for a while in warm ups, and will see what happens! Thanks!

Edit: This is primarily for developing and maintaining flexibility of the external rotators, which I have had a huge deficit in for several years (first really measured it in athletic training lab about 1.5 years ago) in the right shoulder vs the left.

I came up with something similar on my own but had that broken down into different movements, I was surprised that no one really did mobility work for the external rotators. I don't know how much it contributed to relieving my shoulder pain but it sure makes my shoulder feel less stiff. His move feels a bit different/harder than what I came up with up, I'll replace it with what I have and see what happens.
 

 Interesting, looks like tai chi. I'l try to remember to try it before I go eat lunch *soon*.

Try doing it with tray full of beer and it's an excellent strength exercise too.

 What an idea!

 I played with yesterday and today. Not terribly difficult and I used up to a 2kg weight plate. Will need to try a cup of fluid but my palm is pretty darn horizontal.

 Weird thing is I can feel my wrists subluxate on the way down. You can feel the tension in the wrists and elbow. Bare in mind I had a pretty gnarly double wrist sprain from a missed clean with 70kg back in late August. Still dealing with it's repercussions. Just able now to barely hold a bridge because of the wrist flexion with load.

 People at work thought I was doing some sort of dancing because they were dancing to bad 90's music.

 Really, Step By Step. Gag.

Totally should have done that one at karaoke tonight!

Rik you've started an new dance craze!

I'm surprised you don't know that on e Blair, I was always told all the martial artists did them. It's a real classic and excellent movement.

I'll use a wood yoga block, which is a bit slippery.

The other thing is you would do this exercise going both ways.

Mats Trane said:

I had a period when I used it. Good for shoulder mobility/prehab. I used it in my warmup every time I trained.

you can also do both arms at the same time, forwards or backwards.  I feel it a bit more this way

Cole Dano said:

Rik you've started an new dance craze!

Finally, a dream fulfilled!

yuri said:

you can also do both arms at the same time, forwards or backwards.  I feel it a bit more this way

That guy Steve Cotter goes over this variation in "excercises 3 and 4" - here are all 4 variations for reference (just 1 hand fwd, 1 hand backward, 2 hands fwd, 2 hands backward):

Wow - that was just the movement I needed today!  Thanks! 

That looks excellent. I'll have to add it to my repertoire. Thanks!

This stuff is totally awesome for warming up, cooling down, and general limbering of the shoulders. Plus, it looks really cool!