Cuban presses

[Meat_Head]

I did just 2 short sets of these in my last workout... what an amazing rotator cuff and shoulder exercise. They felt perfect, almost no discomfort, and I had a massive pump in my delt and rotator cuff, they felt like I'd beat the hell out of them for hours. I'm gonna be implementing them more often for injury prevention and maybe a little hypertrophy too. Has anyone else used these? If so, what kind of results did you get?

[ericg]

I love them. I had some problems with my shoulders before. I stopped all overhead movements for a while and did some recovery/muscular imbalance work for a month and it worked great. I still do some of those exercises now and I have no problems doing any overhead work. The main benefit is that I can throw a ball again without pain.

[ericg]

This is what I followed:

http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=459577

[Davidelmo]

Looks good... I'll give it a go tonight.

Can you actually feel a pump in your rotator cuff though?

[Meat_Head]

Looks like a good program eric! I throw the football around alot, among other potential shoulder injuring activities, so strengthening the rotator cuff is pretty critical.

David, I can definately feel a pump in my rotator cuff. Its made up of small muscles, but once you identify where they are and how they work, you can easily tell when you are hitting them.

[ericg]

I wouldnt expect much muscle growth to come from these exercises directly. Though they could potentially correct some weak/imbalanced muscles in the shoulder area which could make you improve in other lifts that can create some significant muscle growth.