Corrective Exercise Challenge

[lyfegard]

"it's not always what you know, but how to communicate that to your client". Sorry if i offended anyone, i've just seen this happen at many gyms.

[lyfegard]

Yes i'm a personal trainer also, not the best in the world (no one can claim that), but i have enough experience to know that a client needs to relate to you, and the more they think about an exercise while they are doing it, the more they mess up wih their technique. Like i said, here is a simple correction

Bend over sticking your butt out until you have a straight line from your neck down to your tail bone, both elbows tucked into the sides of your rib cage. Emphasis on sticking out the butt.

[lyfegard]

First off i wanna say that this is a great idea on your guys part! Very interactive, i love it! No offense to the other trainers here but i think the problem with a lot of these comments and trainers is they tend to use all these "terms" to clients that clients can't understand! Some of these comments made, makes me wonder why so much is said just to correct ONE exercise that just needs a little fix. Big words, muscle names, etc. doesn't impress everyone, it just makes your client CONFUSED.

[renstw31]

you can use this type of exercises to balance strength between the two triceps muscles.

thank you for read.

i found everybody gave a pertinent answer.

thank you for this idea.

i hope there will be another one for a different case.

congrats for your job brian.

see you soon

[renstw31]

floor brench press, military press, dips, weigthed push ups... because that's also really important to develop proprioception and how the customer is able to feel his shoulder, scapula, elbow in the space. to conclude, that's really important to consider triceps as a fantastic power pressing muscle and use it in this way. include this elbow extensor in polyarticular exercises and make him functional for a lot of fundamentals exercises.

[renstw31]

hi everybody

first, sorry for my language because i'm french and i don't speak english very well. i totally agree with johnnycaboosehead. this exercice is providing more tension on brachialis and supinator rather than just the triceps. i also agree with reducing anterior deltoide stiffness which put humerus head bone forward and increase ligament and tension tendons. both active and passive mobility could be used. after i also recommend polyarticular exercises rather than analytic.

[Trish8412]

Its no wonder client is'nt feeling any triceps action. He needs to hinge forward more from his hips, retract his scapulae and start with his elbows paraelle to the floor keeping head aligned with spine. Otherwise he appears to be doing a sloppy biceps curl

[johnnycaboosehead]

Unfortunately, comments appear in reverse order.

[johnnycaboosehead]

If the client has stiff anterior deltoids, I would have the client perform stretching exercises for shoulder extension flexibility.

However, I prefer compound, closed kinetic chain exercises as opposed to isolation exercises.

Depending on the client's strength levels, I would have them perform bench dips, which would work the triceps while simultaneously stretching AND loading the anterior deltoids.

Compound exercises are far more functional, and do more for boosting metabolism.

[johnnycaboosehead]

Continued...

If we want to maintain an upright position, I would have the client perform triceps 'press downs' on a cable machine, providing more consistency of resistance throughout the range of motion.

Lying triceps presses are another option as well.

As for the client 'feeling it' in the anterior shoulder, they are either medially rotating the humerus as they perform the exercise, or they are extremely stiff in that area.

[johnnycaboosehead]

First of all, the clients position, relative to GRAVITY, is providing more of a workout for the BICEPS, rather than the TRICEPS.

In order to load the triceps more effectively using kickbacks, the arms need to be closer to parallel, or completely parallel with the floor when full extension of the elbow is reached.

This can be achieved either by leaning forward more or lying face down and lengthwise on a bench.

[brittanytrahan]

This client isn't doing a tricep kickback. He isn't bent over enough. I would first have him try to bend over more at the waist so his triceps are actually working against gravity. If he was still feeling something in the anterior shoulder while bent over, I would put him on his back with arms extended towards ceiling and then lower the weights toward his ears and back up to work the triceps. I would then work on flexibility in his anterior shoulder.