Dan Blewett Sports Performance » tommy john rehab http://danblewett.com Strength training, Personal training, Warbird Academy, DBSP, Bloomington IL Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:22:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 The Shoulder-Changing Effects of Blackburns http://danblewett.com/2011/03/the-shoulder-changing-effects-of-blackburns/ http://danblewett.com/2011/03/the-shoulder-changing-effects-of-blackburns/#comments Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:15:55 +0000 Dan Blewett http://danblewett.com/?p=1886 We do wayyyyy too many blackburns in my gym. But you know what? I think they have as much bang for the buck as any set of exercises out there. For an overhead athlete like baseball, softball, volleyball and tennis players, it’s really hard to beat them.

Here is a real-life example of a baseball player who has the signs of S.I.C.K scapula, which can leave the shoulder and elbow in ruins if not treated.

Morgan before: (Look at right shoulder – DRASTICALLY lower than his left)

And here is Morgan again, after I showed him this picture and told him that he needed to d0 the full Blackburn circuit 2x per day, every single day. He’s a hard worker, so he did…

Pretty big difference. He isn’t perfectly symmetrical yet, but has gotten pretty close with just an additional 12 minutes of rehab/prehab per day. Blackburns are the one thing I wouldn’t live without as a baseball player. They perform miracles…

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