Yes, it's Greg Steiner, Brad's long lost son . . .
A shoulder injury guarantees that your training will be painful, assuming you can train with an injured shoulder at all. Anyone who's experienced it will confirm this. In my clinic, I treat shoulder injuries and other similar symptoms far more often than anything else among athletes. And often, these strains, tears and bruises leave permanent damage.
Rob, a big guy who owned a gym in Ireland, came to my clinic with a typical complaint:
"Something's wrong with my bench press."
"What?" I asked.
"I can't bench! It hurts so much. It also hurts when I do overhead presses and barbell curls. I can't even pick the bar up off the racks before squats without shoulder pain."
What was his problem, other than the idiocy of perceiving that there's "something wrong with my bench press" as opposed to there's "something wrong with my body."
A case of which came first, the bench press or the ache.
I asked him.
"I don't know," he replied, and it was a typical answer for patients complaining of the same problem as Rob. Rob had injured his rotator cuff, and he was suffering because of a series of mistakes.
His first mistake was exercise selection. Rob is generally very conscientious when it comes to technique, but his injury was caused by the overhead press . . . [NO, it wasn't caused by the overhead press, it was caused by the overhead presser and the technique he used. Givin' the Press a bad name in a subtle way ain't good!]
It's better to do bench presses, they don't put as much stress on the shoulder joints as the overhead press. [Bullshit]
The situation was exacerbated by improper technique in pullups, which Rob had been doing for a while. He had followed someone's advice to relax his shoulders at the bottom position to "stretch" the muscles. Oops, this was his second mistake.
Hey, I remember a guy going so far as to recommend dropping into a full, unbraced loose hang on a chinning bar and repeatedly bouncing at the bottom to "stretch out" the shoulders. It's rarely the exercise at fault, it's almost always the exerciser and/or the bozo offering advice for a fee. Money. Quite a deal. We make Earth a hell for it. Ain't we sweet and evolved.
Rob continued to bench press, even though his strength in the exercise had declined due to his loss of control and stabilization of the bar. At the time, he experienced a "strange sensation" when pressing, causing him to writhe on the bench, trying to engage other muscles to complete the movement. This only made matters worse.
Ya figure?
Finally, after even simple barbell curls and returning the bar to the rack after squatting began to cause pain, he decided to see a doctor. But by then, the problem had already become chronic.
Shoulder problems are common, and too often seeing a doctor is delayed until these injuries (attributed to the athletes themselves) begin to interfere with training. The most common injury is to the shoulder blade, sometimes to the acromioclavicular joint (ACJ) at the end of the collarbone and shoulder. Less commonly, the sternoclavicular joint, where the collarbone connects to the chest, is injured.
Let's take a look at the RMP first, and if I can't convince you not to injure your RMP in the first place, I can at least tell you when you should see a doctor and what to do if an RMP injury has already become one of the wounds you received in "battle."
What does a person feel when they injure their rotator cuff, and what is it anyway? Answering these questions in reverse order, shoulder the rotate externally, positions anatomical most in for fuck sake . . . I'll say that the rotator cuff is a group of muscles that, in most anatomical positions, externally rotate the shoulder. External rotation of the shoulder, for example, occurs during the movement known as the "backhand" in tennis. It's precisely rotator cuff injuries that punish fools who do exercises incorrectly and teach others to do the same. Baseball pitchers also subject these muscles to tremendous stress at various points in the pitch.
So, what are the symptoms of being so fucking stupid you put poundage increases ahead of your own physical wellbeing? Well, it starts with being born an idiot, feeling inadequate as a "man" and soon turns into a self-destructive fear-based blah blah blah . . .
First of all, you should be wary of pain that occurs when bench pressing. The pain is "out there" and hang on . . .
There can be only one Leon the Professional. Nonetheless . . .
. . . there are no rules, no rights and/or wrongs based on the human construct/constriction of good and evil. All we are is survival, the bottom line for all things. Grow up already, asshole. We're the worst of all possible whores in a world with well-organized sadomasochism at its core, you fucking cunt.
Enjoy Your Lifting!
The Lorne Malvo character in Fargo S01, you would assume owing to its masterful quality would override the other roles. Nope. They all rise to the occasion. Quite a thing, this human art affair, ain't it just!
To be continued from here when I stop watching films . . .
Enjoy Your Lifting, Frank Peterson.
Now Go Tommy!
That's our boy Hemingway.
Come on now all you big time thinkers who haven't succumbed to the stupidity and meaninglessness of seeking wealth, health, strength and other pointless temporal pursuits. Your eternal soul is a human construct that does not exist so rule that lie out. You have nothing left when you die, and that includes the petty "remembrance" of a life "well lived" before going "to its reward."
Crazy. All of us. Completely crazy.
A screener for this one sold online for what I hope was a great price and piece-a-money and it's a good watch:
Ah, fer fucksake . . .
if you're a film fan,
look and listen to all this triggering . . .
We were built for strife, peace
not of our true nature,
determined by evil, never
seeing who we are.
Evolved "from" apes?
Not even near yet.
