Kettlebell Arm Bar

[Michael]

I really like the KB Arm Bar. Feels really good especially on the shoulder, well atleast for myself. You may or may not like this.

[pierinifitness]

Scott is demonstrating impressive shoulder flexibility in his video. You should see his squat depth which showcases amazing hip girdle flexibility. A physical therapist by first profession, he knows his stuff like Jeff Cavaliere. He’s definitely on my viewing rotation list.

Thanks for sharing.

[mozietoes]

I really like the arm bar. I think I do it differently to some. I don't push / stretch the kettlebell towards the ceiling but instead use the weight of the bell to allow the shoulder to fall back and down (packed). I also don't over rotate my body to where the shoulder / upper back has gone past vertical as I feel the weight of the bell encourages the shoulder head to roll forwards. I already have forward / rounded shoulders so I need to avoid anything that makes that worse :-)

As I come back down to lying flat, I let the back of the shoulder lead this movement so that it continues to stay back and touches the floor sooner rather than later.  I learnt this from pilates.  Feels really good

[Michael]

Thanks for sharing this Mozietoes. I also use the weight of the bell to allow the shoulder to fall back and down (packed). The only thing I don't understand what You wrote is," I also don't over rotate my body to where the shoulder / upper back has gone past vertical as I feel the weight of the bell encourages the shoulder head to roll forwards. I already have forward / rounded shoulders so I need to avoid anything that makes that worse :-)" This is a question, I would figure rotating Your body closer to the ground would stretch the shoulder back more? I'm also worried about the rounded shoulder thing.

[mozietoes]

Jun 6, 2019 21:25:55 GMT Michael said:

Thanks for sharing this Mozietoes. I also use the weight of the bell to allow the shoulder to fall back and down (packed). The only thing I don't understand what You wrote is," I also don't over rotate my body to where the shoulder / upper back has gone past vertical as I feel the weight of the bell encourages the shoulder head to roll forwards. I already have forward / rounded shoulders so I need to avoid anything that makes that worse :-)" This is a question, I would figure rotating Your body closer to the ground would stretch the shoulder back more? I'm also worried about the rounded shoulder thing.

Hi Michael.  Thanks for your reply. 


So regarding the rotating shoulders point, when I'm lying on my side with the bell vertically above, I have the shoulders stacked vertically.  At this point the bell pushes the top shoulder blade back and down. It feels nicely set there.  If I continue to rotate so that the top shoulder starts moving over towards the ground, I now feel the physics of the exercise has changed. The weight of the bell is now trying to move the top shoulder towards the ground but forwards (in front of my chest) and what I'm doing is pushing the bell vertically upwards in order to stop that happening.  This might be the point of the exercise I'm not sure but it feels different to the earlier position. I can no longer relax and allow the bell to set the shoulder, instead I'm fighting with it to stop it over-rotating the shoulder forwards and down towards the ground.  I guess doing this  could be strengthening the back muscles that are used to pull the shoulders back but I actually feel it in the front of the shoulder capsule.

[Michael]