Cuban Press
Cuban Press is a shoulder mobility exercise that sill strengthen your rotator cuffs. This is essential for much of the advanced upper body work, and will help prehab and rehab shoulders for hollow body press work.
- Type Of Exercise: Mobility
- Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back
- Difficulty: Advanced
- Equipment: Barbell, Weighted Dowel, Dumbbell
Cuban Press
- From standing, grab a weighted bar with a pronated grip (palms back) and pull up so that your elbows reach shoulder height.
- With your upper arms parallel to the floor, adjust your hands so that your elbows make a 90-degree angle.
- This is your starting position.
- Initiate the movement by externally rotating your shoulders to rotate the bar and your upper arms 180-degrees.
- The bar should now be roughly forehead height.
- At this halfway point, check that your wrists are stacked directly over your elbows.
- Reverse the rotation by internally rotating your shoulders and rotating the bar down, back to the starting position.
- Maintain the 90-degree elbow and armpit angles as you repeat for reps.
- Exercise: Prone Cactus Retraction
- Type of Exercise: Mobility
- Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius
- Difficulty: Advanced
- Equipment: Body Only
- Exercise: Prone W Retraction
- Type of Exercise: Mobility
- Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius
- Difficulty: Advanced
- Equipment: Body Only
