Hey guys it’s Dean welcome to man flow yoga and this is a short video about how to reduce shoulder clicking, popping or grinding in your shoulders in your chest. So if you’re like most guys or most people who work, out at some point or another you’ve experienced grinding or kind of clicking in your shoulders when you reach your arms overhead or when you’re doing a bench press or when you’re doing a military press lifting your arms overhead.

Now, the reason for this, and what that is is that is muscle that is tendon going over a bone…okay so that’s what happens when you hear that clicking, and is it a bad thing? It can be a bad thing if it doesn’t hurt it’s not a bad thing, but eventually it’s an indicator that eventually something will happen if you don’t address it. So if your shoulder clicking has no pain now that’s good but it might start to hurt later.

So what can we do about it? Two things and these are the two things that I recommend for everybody who’s experiencing these issues.

Number one is strengthening your back. So chances are that you do a lot of pushing right and even if you don’t specifically focus on pushing when you’re at the gym when you are walking around during the day, when you’re sitting at your desk, the muscles that are engaged are the muscles in the front side of your body your anterior muscles, and those posterior muscles, the muscles in their back are being neglected. So what you need to do in your workout is start doing more back exercises, start doing more rows, start doing more lat pull-downs, more push-ups, more scapular strength in area–so start working on increasing the strength of the muscles around your shoulder blades.

Number two is to work on the flexibility of your upper torso. So that includes shoulders but let’s think of everything that connects to your shoulders. We have pecs, we have the muscles on the tops of your shoulders, we have your traps we have your rhomboids, we have your biceps, your triceps, so everything from right the mid torso up, affects your shoulder flexibility.

So the second thing you can start doing is improving the flexibility of your upper body. Now how do you do that? You do that by focusing on a practice by participating in a physical fitness discipline that specifically focuses on flexibility. Chances are if you’re doing functional fitness, CrossFit or if you’re just weightlifting that you’re probably not doing that flexibility focus. So what I recommend is doing yoga twice per week so it doesn’t have to be five days per week, you don’t have to go join a yoga studio, you don’t have to chant, you don’t have to light candles, you just have to do the yoga postures…you just have to do the physical discipline of yoga. So I’ve got tons of videos on this YouTube channel shorter videos, some older workouts, but if you really want the good stuff if you want to see what these workouts look like, you want to take the time devote the time to improving your your flexibility in your upper body, reducing that clicking in your shoulders and eliminating it once and for all, you’re going to need to start doing longer workouts. You’ll need to start focus focusing specifically on that flexibility.

So I invite you to take a seven day free trial to the man flow yoga members area, and this is where we have a video library with videos filtered by flexibility, by focus, so by upper body, by lower body, and again I recommend you taking that 7 day free trial, getting into the video library checking out a workout and if you hate it, you can click cancel and you pay nothing. So if you if you sign up and you hate it, you don’t like it, just go cancel and even if you sign up and you hate it and you don’t like it and you get charged, just send me an email and say hey, Dean I don’t really want to do this, and I will give you your money back…no questions asked. So you’ve got nothing to lose – remember if you’re not doing to do anything that I just said, if you don’t want to join the members area and you don’t want to subscribe to the YouTube channel, just start working on your shoulder flexibility and start working on strengthening your back.

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