Your Shoulders Hurt During Push-Ups Because You’re Forgetting This One Thing…

Unpopular opinion: stability > mobility.

If your shoulders aren’t happy with the push-up position, you must improve their stability not just mobility. While it makes sense in our brains that stretching out this joint would help relieve pain, what your tissues truly need is a wake-up call. One that develops the most neglected stability muscles so that your shoulders can handle any exercise or position you throw at them.

Luck for you, I have 5 exercises to help you do all of this and more.

The best strategy is to throw a variety of loads and planes of movement at the shoulders and force them to grow stronger in each. This is where activating dormant tissues like the serratus anterior and mid/lower traps comes in handy. All of this stability-based work will result in less pain, along with improved biomechanics and motor control.

The best part is that this type of training can take mere minutes and you don’t even need to go to the gym! In turn, you’ll save countless hours of dealing with unnecessary injuries while building beyond your current strength levels. Sounds like a pretty good return on investment to me.

Life is too short to settle with shoulder pain.