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Morning! It's the summer in San Francisco, it's awesome.
Foggy, it's almost 53 degrees, and look - I'm by a container.
It's beautiful, it's the dream. Anyways, here's the deal,
really quick thing. Sometimes, we post shoulder passes in the
workout as just a mobility piece and a flexibility piece for your
shoulders and a lot of people don't know what it is.
I have terrible shoulders, believe it or not. I know you want to
believe that I'm perfect, but I'm not. I'm terrible.
Check this out. This is what it is. We just grab a PVC pipe,
and the goal is to be able to bring that PVC pipe behind
your back and in front of you, just creating this big, full
range of motion circle. The goal is to try to get the hands
as narrow as possible. But what we're trying to look for here
is good range of motion, where I'm trying to push that arm away
from my body, really making that circle big as I transition
over to the back; and from the back, up top, to the front.
The goal is almost to feel like the shoulders are sweeping
your ears. This little sweep is going to: A) increase that
shoulder range, but B) going to help you with this elevation.
This big elevation is key when we're doing a lot of
handstand stuff, when we're receiving a heavy bar overhead,
and when we go into more fancy stuff that could be maybe
advanced gymnastics related, or some other sports specific
stuff that we're going to talk about down the line.
So shoulder passes, basically find a width that works for you.
Start working in those shoulder passes and every time you do a pass,
you want to feel like your shoulders are coming up all the way
to your ears and that you're finishing all the way back.
Something that you also want to keep in mind is that you want
to be a super star gymnast: feet together, butt is really tight,
belly is really tight. So when you do this shoulder pass,
that ribcage doesn't fly. If this ribcage starts flying,
now you look like Shakira on a Saturday night - and that's cool
for Saturday night, but not Wednesday morning.