A Very Dangerous Exercise You Should NOT Be Doing! - Mount Muscle

In this article we will talk about an exercise you shouldn’t be including in your workout routine.

To start right of, the exercise you shouldn’t be doing is the upright row.

With the upright row you will usually hold the barbell or EZ bar horizontally in a shoulder-width position or more narrow with the palms of your hand facing down.

Then you lift it up towards your chin. As seen on the image below.

The problem with this exercise though, is that you lift the barbell with an elevation of the shoulder while internally rotating the shoulder.

There is no way to prevent this internal rotation, it’s just what happens during this exercise. And the combination of these two movements is very bad.

Apparently, this same type of movement is also being used to test for shoulder inpingement.

Because of this movement there is less space inside the shoulder joint. Bone from that part of the upper arm takes up more space and anything under the acromion bone is open to wearing and tearing from the lack of space this movement creates. This includes rotator cuff tendons, the subacromial bursa and the bicep tendon inside the joint which can all get pinched.

What you can do is to replace the upright row exercise with the dumbbell high pull. Perform it as shown halfway in the video below and make sure to watch it for a detailed explanation on why the upright row exercise should not be done.