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What is it for?

This shoulder exercise primarily trains the Deltoid muscles and focuses on the Anterior Deltoid (the front portion of your shoulder muscle and highlighted in red on the diagram - Beeble). The secondary muscles (highlighted in yellow) it works on are the core muscles especially the erector spinae muscle (small muscles that run along either side of your spine – Beeble.) This is because the weight is brought up in front of the body and so requires stability from these muscles to stop you falling forwards. It also works the Biceps; part of their job is to raise the arm at the shoulder joint (highlighted in yellow - Beeble).

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What is it for?

This exercise primarily trains our deltoid muscles and to be even more precise it focuses on our anterior and medial deltoids (the deltoid muscle is the one that sits on top of your arm on your shoulder. Red in the diagram – Beeble). The secondary muscles it works on are the triceps (back of the arms  (yellow) – Beeble) and the upper trapezius muscle (the muscle that looks like it joins from your neck to your shoulders (yellow) – Beeble). This is not one of my favourite exercises, however there is no doubting its benefits to your strength and the effects this has on your day to day lives.

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Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) is commonplace now, especially in the office. It is also an injury that, like so many others, can be easily avoided with very little effort.

So What Causes it?

It starts when we do repetitive movements many many times over a long period. As an example we are going to use an RSI caused by using the mouse on a computer but there are similar causes like playing the guitar that can result in carpel tunnel syndrome which in itself is an RSI. As you can probably tell the mouse is used in a very small range of movement that creates relatively large movements on the screen. Very handy for people with little room on the desk but it means that we are using muscles within a very limited range of their possible movement. The muscle doesn’t get used as much outside this range of movement and this starts to create an imbalance. This imbalance starts to create knots and tension in the muscle and surrounding muscles. Before you know it you have RSI and a lot of pain. If you would like to learn about RSI in more detail then please visit this website

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