By RealJock Staff

This exercise provided courtesy of Billy Polson, founder and co-owner of DIAKADI Body training gym, voted best personal training gym in San Francisco by CitySearch in 2006.

Benefits
The dumbbell upward rotator helps warm up and strengthen those easy-to-injure rotator cuff muscles. Doing these with light weights before you dive into your strength-training program will loosen them up and help minimize the risk of injury.

Muscles Worked
Shoulders (rotator cuffs)

Starting Position
Stand holding dumbbells in each hand in front of you with your elbows and armpit held at a 90-degree angle. As this is a warm-up exercise, use light weights (see Photo 1).

Exercise

1. Being sure to maintain the 90-degree angle of your elbow and armpit, slowly raise the dumbbells until they are straight up and your forearms are perpendicular to the floor (see Photo 2).
2. Reverse the motion and bring the dumbbells back to starting position (see Photo 3).

About Billy Polson: Billy Polson is the founder and co-owner of DIAKADI Body training gym, which was voted the best personal training gym in San Francisco by CitySearch in 2006. A competitive swimmer and triathlete in his own right, Polson has over 15 years of experience working as a coach and trainer, and was recently named by Men's Journal Magazine (December 2005) as one of the Top 100 Trainers in America.

Garconbleu wrote:

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Mar 09 2:10 PM

muscllvrxxx wrote:

Why don't the pictures print on your pages when I got to print page so I can have the exercises WITH me when I go to the gym so I can look at the picturews on the page? The pictures will not print when I hit print page. Why not????

Jul 16 7:17 AM