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Shoulder fitness and the "H-Roll"

Date: Tuesday 22 April, 2008

Shoulder problems are the scourge of the iron game. Nearly everyone who has trained with resistance for any appreciable length of time has encountered shoulder pain/problems at one time or another. At AtLarge Nutrition, LLC we are the strength specialists. We maintain a roster of some of the strongest men and women in the world and we continually drill them for their “best practices” relative to strength training. When we find something of interest we pass it on to our customers as a value-added service and our way of saying thanks! If you think about it, it is like having the world’s best as your personal trainer, and it costs you nothing!

George Halbert is a living strength training legend having held multiple world records for the bench press in multiple weight classes. Several years ago George suffered what was considered a career ending shoulder injury. He did, in fact, retire from competition for several years all the time working with dogged determination to rehabilitate his shoulder so that he could resume intense training. George was successful, and has launched a comeback which will see him benching over 800 lbs at less than 220 lbs body weight. Integral to his shoulder rehabilitation was an exercise he calls the H-Roll. This unique movement can serve to both rehabilitate injured shoulders and to help prevent injury with healthy shoulders (prehab). George performs this movement twice weekly utilizing a heavy and a light day. On the light day he performs reps in the 11-20 range using a bit of momentum to get the dumbbells as high as possible at the end of the range of motion (ROM). Heavy days consist of 5-10 reps with a more limited ROM. He prefers to perform the exercise on his back training days, but says that doing them on other training days is acceptable.

Below is a video taken at Westside Barbell (www.westside-barbell.com) by Travis Bell of George performing the H-Roll. Watch the video and give it a try the next time you are at the gym. You will be glad you did!

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