The rotator cuff gets a lot of blame. Bad shoulder? It’s probably your rotator cuff. Can’t lift your arm? Rotator cuff. Woke up in pain after sleeping funny? Could be the rotator cuff. Here’s what most people don’t know: the rotator cuff isn’t one thing. It’s four muscles — supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres minor, and subscapularis […]
You know that feeling when you start a workout cold and your knees creak, your shoulders feel stiff, and nothing moves the way it should for the first ten minutes? That’s not just normal aging. That’s your body telling you it needed more time before you started loading it. After 50, the warm-up isn’t optional.
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If there’s one piece of fitness advice that has done more damage to adults over 50 than any other, it’s this: “No pain, no gain.” It sounds tough. It sounds committed. And for older adults with aging joints, it is flat-out wrong. I’ve been training for over 40 years. I developed bilateral shoulder arthritis and
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