So as some of you may remember, I have a truly screwed up left shoulder: three full-thickness tears of rotator cuff tendons, leaving only one intact (teres minor). I also have moderately severe arthrosis in that shoulder. They keep telling me I’m going to need a full replacement, and I keep showing up two years later with an ever stronger shoulder with full ROM. Replacement? Fuck that.
All of that said, my shoulder limits some of my lifts, such as incline dumbells and even heavy flat bench. When I push myself to go heavy anyway, the shoulder becomes seriously inflamed, hurts like a mother, and has to be iced and injected with BPC-157, etc. for a week before I can get back to it. So I’ve been looking for some sort of brace or other “aid” that would enable me to do heavy work without taxing the shoulder. I found it, thanks to a thread on this board: the Slingshot.
The Slingshot is a neoprene band that stretches across your chest and has two armholes. It’s impact when benching (whether flat or incline, barbell or dumbells) is twofold: It makes you tuck your elbows to the perfect position and it gives you what I would say is about a 10% boost at the lowest part of the lift. Each of these things decreases the work done by the shoulders during the lift and concentrates the work on the chest muscles.
While it does make benching a less compound lift, it allows me to go heavy with my lifts without risking further shoulder degredation. Can’t recommend this little item enough.
All of that said, my shoulder limits some of my lifts, such as incline dumbells and even heavy flat bench. When I push myself to go heavy anyway, the shoulder becomes seriously inflamed, hurts like a mother, and has to be iced and injected with BPC-157, etc. for a week before I can get back to it. So I’ve been looking for some sort of brace or other “aid” that would enable me to do heavy work without taxing the shoulder. I found it, thanks to a thread on this board: the Slingshot.
The Slingshot is a neoprene band that stretches across your chest and has two armholes. It’s impact when benching (whether flat or incline, barbell or dumbells) is twofold: It makes you tuck your elbows to the perfect position and it gives you what I would say is about a 10% boost at the lowest part of the lift. Each of these things decreases the work done by the shoulders during the lift and concentrates the work on the chest muscles.
While it does make benching a less compound lift, it allows me to go heavy with my lifts without risking further shoulder degredation. Can’t recommend this little item enough.
