– [Dan] We’re going to finish this off with the dip or the push up, because the pull up is the same as this. This gives us a little bit of ammunition to talk about the shoulder blades. So if someone’s doing a pushup, we saw with Remy, that you had that elevation of the shoulder blades. So here’s a really good one, you guys give this some thought. You can put your critical mind to this. Shoulder blades elevating, what could cause that? Have a think about it. Okay, give us some answers. What’s causing this?
– [Woman] Tight traps.
– [Dan] Mhmm. Everyone agree? Yeah.
– [Man] Weak lats.
– [Dan] Weak lats. Stand up for me, Remy. Do Remy’s shoulders look like they were when she was coming up out of her pushup now?
– [Dan] No. Cause her shoulders were touching her earlobes when she was coming out of the pushup. They’re definitely not now. Are her traps so tight they can’t be in good position?
– [Woman] No.
– [Dan] No, cause her posture now is good. Show us the position you’re going to as you’re doing a pushup. Keep going. Cool. And have a seat. Is this a mobility problem? Do we need to do PNF for this? Why’s it a stability issue?
– [Man] Cause it’s not a mobility problem, it’s just resisting that shift forward.
– [Dan] Exactly. We’re trying to resist the elevation of the scaps. So we need to build stability in the … anything that pulls the shoulder blades down. Lower traps, mid traps, rhomboids, that is the movement that we want. So Remy needs to be doing this under load. A great way to do it would be like a seated body lift and you know the one you did with Kyle where you went snap up into that muscle up and you were pushing down against the ground? Those of you that struggle to get your hips off the ground and were still on the ground here, it’s because you weren’t depressing your scaps. You weren’t depressing your shoulder blades. Cause you didn’t have that strength. So every time you lockout a dip, exactly like these guys were talking about in the gymnastics stuff on your dip, every time you lock it out, it’s here. Shoulders away. Doing seated body lifts on parallettes where you’re basically hands on parallettes or dumbbells or kettlebells or whatever and you’re pushing there. Resisting the movement we’re trying to avoid. Resisting the movement we’re trying to avoid. And then the same stuff carries over into the pullups as well, cause we’ve got the same issues. But now this scapular elevation, the pullup looks like this because we want to be specific to the movement pattern that we’re addressing. With a dip or a pushup you may be want to do this. But with a pullup, you want to do this. Can you see how it’s the same movement? If you Photoshop my arms out of this picture, it’s the same thing. We’re looking for a depression of your shoulder blades, irrespective of where the arms are. But if it’s happening in your pullups, train that fix in your pullups, so it’s more specific, more carryover. It’s happening in the dips, fix it in your dips. Does that make sense?
