Your shoulder pinch isn't weakness
Your shoulders pinch when you bench.
You already did the band pull aparts.
Everyone hands those out, and you know they didn't work.
Your shoulder blade sits on top of your rib cage.
When the rib cage stops moving well, the shoulder runs out of room.
No room, and the joint pinches.
Doesn't matter how strong the muscles around it are.
You can stretch and strengthen forever. If the space isn't there, the pinch keeps showing up.
So the job is to make space, and breathing is how you get at it.
Here's the drill.
The side-lying kettlebell reach, watch it here.
Lie on your side with a pad under your head so your neck stays neutral.
Yoga block between the knees.
Take a kettlebell in your top hand and reach it gently toward the ceiling.
Inhale as your thumb turns out. Exhale as your thumb turns in.
Keep reaching the whole time and feel the space between your shoulder blades fill up with air.
A few slow breaths, then switch sides.
If you want more drills like this, the ones I start clients with, they're in my free Rebuild Movement Manual™.
Grab the Rebuild Movement Manual™ here.
Gabe
PS. Benching around a pinch that never fully leaves? Book a call and we'll figure out where the room went.
