I use kettlebells a lot with my clients who have shoulder issues. In this interview, Rick Kaselj and Chris Lopez talk about why it is such a great tool for shoulder corrective exercise...
Chris Lopez: One of the baseless assumption that I find is that people get scared training with kettlebells initially because of shoulder issues or maybe because of low back pains as well.
We are going to talk about the shoulder and using kettlebell why is it a great tool or equipment to use especially if you got bad shoulders if you want to get stronger shoulders.
If you will take a look at the way the kettlebell is shaped the way it fits in your arm when you are holding it especially if you are holding it on top. Unlike a common dumbbell it is not straight up and bound and the weight if the bell is not pushing straight down vertically on your arm. It is actually forcing your arm to a come a little bit further back and pull you into alignment because it’s the way it develops the weight it behind the bar not right on the top.
By doing that what it does is it automatically gives you that stretching on the rib cage, a little bit of stretching in your lat, and then you find it all automatically pushing you into alignment. It pushes your shoulder into its sock.
It is the same as where you can see your ears and shoulders are placing and you find people pressing them and do everything overhead they have the tendency to shorten their shoulders up. If your shoulders are shorten up then as you know it kind of pulls it out of the center.
So by using the kettlebell and focusing on the packing your shoulder and using that alignment with the kettlebell when you are lifting it over your head it naturally pulls you into alignment and it centers your shoulder and really gets you to focus on keeping your shoulder locked-in in its sock.
Rick Kaselj: Awesome. Thank you very much Chris, so where can people get more information on your?
Chris Lopez: It’s www.kettlebellworkouts.com that’s where you can find me, lots of great information there.
Chris Lopez: One of the baseless assumption that I find is that people get scared training with kettlebells initially because of shoulder issues or maybe because of low back pains as well.
We are going to talk about the shoulder and using kettlebell why is it a great tool or equipment to use especially if you got bad shoulders if you want to get stronger shoulders.
If you will take a look at the way the kettlebell is shaped the way it fits in your arm when you are holding it especially if you are holding it on top. Unlike a common dumbbell it is not straight up and bound and the weight if the bell is not pushing straight down vertically on your arm. It is actually forcing your arm to a come a little bit further back and pull you into alignment because it’s the way it develops the weight it behind the bar not right on the top.
By doing that what it does is it automatically gives you that stretching on the rib cage, a little bit of stretching in your lat, and then you find it all automatically pushing you into alignment. It pushes your shoulder into its sock.
It is the same as where you can see your ears and shoulders are placing and you find people pressing them and do everything overhead they have the tendency to shorten their shoulders up. If your shoulders are shorten up then as you know it kind of pulls it out of the center.
So by using the kettlebell and focusing on the packing your shoulder and using that alignment with the kettlebell when you are lifting it over your head it naturally pulls you into alignment and it centers your shoulder and really gets you to focus on keeping your shoulder locked-in in its sock.
Rick Kaselj: Awesome. Thank you very much Chris, so where can people get more information on your?
Chris Lopez: It’s www.kettlebellworkouts.com that’s where you can find me, lots of great information there.
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