Upright Rows - Do they damage ur rotary cuffs?

Superdub2

what do you reckon? They are one of my favourite shoulder exercises but a friend reckons they are not too god for me as they may damage my rotary cuffs?

brianthebard

Only if you do them wrong.

Superdub2

brianthebard wrote:

Only if you do them wrong.

Well im pretty sure im doing them right! but he still reckons that they damage ur rotary cuffs irrespective of whether or not you are doing them correctly.

brianthebard

Rotator cuff injuries are like the "in" thing atm-so long as you are doing them right and don't feel any pain then I wouldn't worry. Have a google or check out youtube even for a video to double check that your form is right.

Transform

Just a very over rated exercise especially when done in the smith machine (or any exercise in smith machine for that matter).

what can you dumbbell shoulder press?

g-punkteffekt

I stopped doing upright rows aswell because they just feel terribly awkward. If you want to exercise those parts of your body, seated bent over lateral raises and pull ups will do so, without any risk of injury.

I can shoulder dumbell press 30kg, 2 sets of 4 or 5
but I can only flat dumbell press 37.5kg, I seem to be weak at those

Superdub2

Transform wrote:

Just a very over rated exercise especially when done in the smith machine (or any exercise in smith machine for that matter).

what can you dumbbell shoulder press?

45 - 50 k dumnbell press, why?

Transform

45-50k bells? What do you weigh?

g-punkteffekt

yeah that's a pretty serious weight for shoulder dumbells, the only people I've seen doing that weight are lashed out of it on steroids and do shows etc.

Transform

Exactly my point - what the hell are you worried about doing upright rows if you COULD lift those kind of weights - 40-50kg bells in each hand???

Superdub2

Transform wrote:

45-50k bells? What do you weigh?

sorry you that got last in translation! bout 25k bells which means 50kg in total! sorry for the confusion! i weigh bout 80 kg