Full body · MOBILITY

Sleeper Stretch — loaded shoulder hold

Internal rotation range in the back shoulder — the range a bowling, throwing or serving arm loses first, and the one that precedes the impingement

Coaching cues

How to do it well

These are the cues the app shows on the exercise card, written for the moment you are standing in front of the bar.

  • Side-lying, shoulder blade pinned to the floor
  • Rotate the forearm down slowly
  • Stop at tension, never at pain
Tempo
ease in
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In the program

How Train Smart prescribes it

The sets and reps below are the authored starting point. The actual weight you see is calculated from your own last top set and the week you are in within your four-week block.

ProgramSessionSets × repsLoad
CricketEndurance Day2 × 30s/sideLight DB
BasketballUpper + Trunk2 × 30s/sideLight DB

How the weight is calculated →

At a glance

What it trains, and who trains it

Muscles worked
Shoulders
Region
Full body
Classified as
MOBILITY
Prescribed in
cricket · basketball

This exercise, in a program that knows why it is there

Train Smart puts this movement in the right session, at the right point in your block, at a weight calculated for you — and swaps it automatically if you do not have the kit.

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