This bodyweight exercise can help alleviate shoulder impingement and improve overhead shoulder mobility while restoring muscular balance.

While bodyweight resistance training is a great way to maintain strength, often it can lead to muscular imbalance, especially when your routine includes a lot of pushups.

The imbalance can then result in limited shoulder flexion - lifting the arms up overhead - which can also contribute to shoulder impingement issues like rotator cuff tendonitis and subacromial bursitis.

Part of the issue with shoulder impingement is due to the fact that many people execute upper body exercises with scapulae (shoulder blades) that are fixed "down and back".

This cue, which is often promoted by well-meaning but uninformed trainers, disrupts proper scauplohumeral rhythm, which is required for optimal shoulder mobility and health.

In the video we're going to cover all of this and more and I'm going to demonstrate a unique bodyweight exercise that's a pushup variation that will help you with all of the issues discussed above while also helping build your upper body strength.

I call the exercise the "Push Pike" and it's essentially a dynamic combination of a standard pushup and the downward dog from yoga. The key is to execute it under control with your focus on proper scapulohumeral rhythm, which we go through in the video.

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