Eric Wong – Scap Control Program (HD)

There was a time not too long ago when people who suffered from acute low back pain were prescribed exercises like this:

While it would be bad enough to have to stare at some dude’s backside as he’s bent over touching his toes, what’s even WORSE is the fact that twisting or flexing your spine is a great way to further exacerbate acute low back pain.

The reason why doctors prescribed these types of exercises is because they assumed that the low back pain their patients complained of was a result of tight low back muscles.

Unfortunately, this is the typical medical approach that treats the SYMPTOMS, not the cause.

For acute low back pain that results from something innocent like tying your shoes or bending over to pick something up off the ground, the cause is typically a result of instability, or deep stabilizer muscles that don’t work properly.

And this is the same mindset being applied right now to the shoulders.

But the root cause of pain, immobility, inflexibility and weakness is the same, so we need to take a NEW approach to treating our shoulders with exercise, and that’s to build up the deep stabilizers, which are neglected in our common approaches to fitness.

Whenever pain or injury occur, it’s the deep stabilizers that are often shut off and the bigger but more superficial muscles take over.

In the shoulder joint, it’s the pecs, lats and delts that often take over for the deeper muscles like the serratus anterior, supraspinatus, infraspinatus, rhomboids and more.

In my 10+ years of being a strength and conditioning coach, I’ve noticed extremely poor control and strength of the scapula, which is the foundation for the shoulder.

This poor control and strength of the scapula leads to real problems like impingement, rotator cuff tears, poor posture, general shoulder pain, poor flexibility and mobility and more.

And that’s why we’re here.