
Originally Posted by
swellin
I have had surgery there, and I can tell you some of the things that really hit the RC. Here are some I have to stay away from: incline barbell, decline, preacher curls, standing barbell rows, and military with barbell.
I try and use more dumbells, and less barbells. I can't even do the preacher curls anymore...it puts tremendous stress on your biceps tendons, and mine are fried. If you do standing barbell rows, you can limit your range of motion and not hurt the RC nearly as bad. When mine is feeling goo, I will take lite weight all the way to my shoulders. As the weight gets heavier, or my shoulder hurts more, I will only move the bar up to my nips...and squyeeze like hell in my shoulders.
If you would like, I can try and find some of my physical therapy stuff and scan the printouts that have stretching and warmup exercises for the shoulder.