Joint-Friendly Fitness by Bill DeSimone

 If you didn't go, you missed a particularly excellent one, folks. The schedule below doesn't do justice to the amount of material presented. First, the night before, Lawrence Neal of the High Intensity Business podcast interviewed Tim Dettmann from Keiser Australia with a live audience, i.e. everyone who came in Friday for the weekend. A few hellos and catch ups, the bar opened, the interview started, with an impressively respectful crowd. Even with the open bar. As part of Luke's introduction, he mentioned, "Bill DeSimone is here and he's probably going to disagree with everything that gets said here tonight." My reputation precedes me. And yes. Which was discussed at one of the bars later that night.  The interview, which I believe will be on Lawrence's podcast, covered the physical therapy to Medx exercise program used in the Keiser Australia sites. The later discussion, which was very civil, at one of the bar/restaurants went like this: Q: Bill, what ...

 

Introduction: context. Keeping your shoulders healthy can depend on your age, prior activity/injuries, genetics...but your exercise selection can make it worse. Even HIT favorites. Tip 1. "Touchdown." If you keep your overhead presses and pulls in this plane and range, you do a lot towards keeping your shoulders healthy.  Exercises. Brand names will be mentioned, but the point is what the designs ask of your body, not to praise or damn the brand or the writers. But with 40 years experience and observation and as a former patient, and easier access to information than 40 years ago, I see no good reason to avoid examining what we do in our workouts. Old Nautilus Double Shoulder, Side Raise. Concern at the "top" of the motion: impingement. Complex fixes:   Joseph Horrigan in 1990s Iron Man magazine. At times, Bodymasters and Cybex used this in their Side Raise designs. Nautilus from Ellington Darden's books. Medx brochure. Two on the left don't allow for exter...