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Old 07-09-2007, 03:34 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Lisa~
Maybe I'm just confused here (and I didn't go through your log), but if you're doing Ys and Ts over a swiss ball and you point your thumbs up to the ceiling, then your humerus would be externally rotated during the exercise. This position should feel pretty comfortable. This is a great exercise to use to correct a chronically internally rotated shoulder. I just wanted to make sure you were doing the exercise correctly.
Therein lies the problem. It's not comfortable, it's like my arm is too tight to externally rotate that far. It's like if I'm standing, and I raise my arms out to the side and try to point my palms to the ceiling (or my thumbs behind me) I can't do it. Too stiff. That's precisely my problem.
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