< strong>Protect your shoulders: the risks of bench extensions!
Many people who love fitness have done this: using a stool to do arm flexion and extension to exercise our arm triceps! Especially for friends who don’t go to the gym and work out at home, bench dips and extensions often appear in their training schedules!
However, while it is effective, we don’t know that this action will also bring us risks!
As you can see in the picture, bench arm flexion and extension causes the humeral head to slide forward past its natural neutral position. Location. In order to achieve this position, your shoulder blades also have to tilt forward a lot.
Not only does this put your shoulder in an unstable and vulnerable position, but the humeral head sliding forward will put a lot of pressure on the front of the shoulder. Risk of shoulder injury!
Especially if you perform arm extensions with your chest in your arms and your head stretched forward in a hunched posture, it will be even worse!
The following is the sports anatomy of shoulder injury risks during bench dips and extensions!
Will it definitely be injured?
Of course, if you have strong shoulders, good range of motion, and correct body posture and operation skills, bench dips will not necessarily cause you injury.
Any movement has risks, you have to do it! Consider whether this move is suitable for you and whether the benefits of training with this move far outweigh the risks!
For most people, if your goal is to train triceps, there are some better ones! Choices such as narrow-grip push-ups and narrow-grip bench press are very good choices!