The other day, I was talking to a guy I used to train—but who now trains at a commercial gym—and he was complaining about some rotator cuff pain he had been experiencing. I asked him if he was still using the heavy-light-medium system of training—he was—and then I laid out a program that I thought would be just what he needed to stay pain-free. I could empathize with him. In the last couple of years, I've had more injuries—including the rotator cuff—than in all my years of training before that. Several months ago, the rotator cuff pain became so bad that I had to completely re-vamp my style of training when it comes to the shoulder girdle. And I'm not the only one. Rotator cuff injuries tend to be the most common among lifters—especially those of us who do a lot of bench pressing. If you have been following a heavy-light-medium style of training, this might be especially true. A lot of guys (gals, too; I don't mean to be sexist) who follow full-body...
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