Overcoming Compensations

In order to retrain how your body moves you have to retrain how your body moves

Let’s take the first move above as an example and walk through it

When i first started it, i was surprised how heavy my arm felt and how little control it felt like i had in the posterior side of that shoulder to create the external rotation from the musculature there that actually generates ER

I could feel and tell that my midsection would tense up and extend a bit to compensate when the shoulder started to go weak

My wrist started wanting to extend instead of staying neutral

And my elbow started wanting to go further out to the side so there was less actual external rotation demand

Bunch of small pieces that i could feel once the shoulder started to go weak

So then from that point, lets go back to the original piece:

In order to retrain how your body moves you have to retrain how your body moves

Good - so in this context what that means is

If i do not want to compensate with a bunch of extension, or break at the wrist, or not be able to hold external rotation position when my shoulder is fatiguing

Then……

I have to not compensate with a bunch of extension, i have to not break at the wrist, and i have to not let my elbow fly out when my shoulder is fatiguing

Like I just simply need to physically stay in and hold the position

Do you get it?

The awareness that you’re compensating doesn’t mean you HAVE to compensate - you can correct it, and get right back into position

Like that’s literally how you train yourself to hold the position

It’s really just a matter of when you’re in training and something is fatiguing or something is difficult - great. Actually physically stay in it and keep doing it - you see what I’m saying? It doesn’t mean something is wrong - this is literally the reason we’re training

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