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Originally posted by hannukah harry
i disagree. i've never had a problem with upright rows, and i've never heard of anyone injurying themselves doing them.
as for whether arnold presses are useless or not, i don't know if the extra plane of movement does or does not really do anything. but there are bodybuilders who swear by them. i don't have the book with me that discusses them right now, but when i go home next week, i'll see what it has to say.
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it's irrelevent whether you've met people getting injured with upright rows or not. fact still stands. internal rotation of shoulders, and the end of the pull remains anterior which causes the external rotators to pull a lot of the weight due to the closed chain properties of this exercise. just because an injury occurs during an exercise doesn't mean the exercise caused it. if you know anything about rotator cuff injuries you'll know they are chronic.
another irrelevent point is whether bodybuilders swear by some exercise. most of the training programs in arnold's book are trash to the natural lifter.
tell me the point of the extra plane of motion? you're overhead pressing for your delts. you're not training to spin the heavy weights around.
btw if you want further reading on this I'll be happy to direct you to the relevent peer cited literature. don't worry, I'm not going to say 'but ive never heard of anyone not injure themselves with these'