Chest Exercises: Movement and Loading of Shoulder, Elbow and Wrist Joints
Injuries to the shoulder are very common in sports that involve overhead arm or throwing movements. Strength training of the chest muscles has the potential to protect the shoulder from injury. Kinematic and kinetic data were acquired in 20 healthy subjects (age: 24.9 ± 2.7 years) using motion captu...
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| author | Pascal Schütz Pia Zimmer Fabian Zeidler Michael Plüss Katja Oberhofer Renate List Silvio Rene Lorenzetti |
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| description | Injuries to the shoulder are very common in sports that involve overhead arm or throwing movements. Strength training of the chest muscles has the potential to protect the shoulder from injury. Kinematic and kinetic data were acquired in 20 healthy subjects (age: 24.9 ± 2.7 years) using motion capture, force plates for the bench press exercises and load cells in the cable for the cable pulley exercises with 15% and 30% of body weight (BW). Joint ranges of motion (RoM) and joint moments at the shoulder, elbow and wrist were derived using an inverse dynamics approach. The maximum absolute moments at the shoulder joint were significantly larger for the cable pulley exercises than for the bench press exercises. The cable cross-over exercise resulted in substantially different joint angles and loading patterns compared to most other exercises, with higher fluctuations during the exercise cycle. The present results indicate that a combination of bench press and cable pulley exercises are best to train the full RoM and, thus, intra-muscular coordination across the upper limbs. Care has to be taken when performing cable cross-over exercises to ensure proper stabilisation of the joints during exercise execution and avoid joint overloading. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-71f15c731a2f47b2b896d794a31d229f2023-11-23T22:05:44ZengMDPI AGSports2075-46632022-01-011021910.3390/sports10020019Chest Exercises: Movement and Loading of Shoulder, Elbow and Wrist JointsPascal Schütz0Pia Zimmer1Fabian Zeidler2Michael Plüss3Katja Oberhofer4Renate List5Silvio Rene Lorenzetti6Institute for Biomechanics, ETH Zurich, Leopold-Ruzicka-Weg 4, 8093 Zurich, SwitzerlandInstitute for Biomechanics, ETH Zurich, Leopold-Ruzicka-Weg 4, 8093 Zurich, SwitzerlandInstitute for Biomechanics, ETH Zurich, Leopold-Ruzicka-Weg 4, 8093 Zurich, SwitzerlandInstitute for Biomechanics, ETH Zurich, Leopold-Ruzicka-Weg 4, 8093 Zurich, SwitzerlandSwiss Federal Institute of Sport Magglingen (SFISM), Hauptstrasse 247, 2532 Magglingen, SwitzerlandInstitute for Biomechanics, ETH Zurich, Leopold-Ruzicka-Weg 4, 8093 Zurich, SwitzerlandInstitute for Biomechanics, ETH Zurich, Leopold-Ruzicka-Weg 4, 8093 Zurich, SwitzerlandInjuries to the shoulder are very common in sports that involve overhead arm or throwing movements. Strength training of the chest muscles has the potential to protect the shoulder from injury. Kinematic and kinetic data were acquired in 20 healthy subjects (age: 24.9 ± 2.7 years) using motion capture, force plates for the bench press exercises and load cells in the cable for the cable pulley exercises with 15% and 30% of body weight (BW). Joint ranges of motion (RoM) and joint moments at the shoulder, elbow and wrist were derived using an inverse dynamics approach. The maximum absolute moments at the shoulder joint were significantly larger for the cable pulley exercises than for the bench press exercises. The cable cross-over exercise resulted in substantially different joint angles and loading patterns compared to most other exercises, with higher fluctuations during the exercise cycle. The present results indicate that a combination of bench press and cable pulley exercises are best to train the full RoM and, thus, intra-muscular coordination across the upper limbs. Care has to be taken when performing cable cross-over exercises to ensure proper stabilisation of the joints during exercise execution and avoid joint overloading.https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4663/10/2/19shoulderstrength exercisepectoralis trainingkineticskinematics |
| spellingShingle | Pascal Schütz Pia Zimmer Fabian Zeidler Michael Plüss Katja Oberhofer Renate List Silvio Rene Lorenzetti Chest Exercises: Movement and Loading of Shoulder, Elbow and Wrist Joints Sports shoulder strength exercise pectoralis training kinetics kinematics |
| title | Chest Exercises: Movement and Loading of Shoulder, Elbow and Wrist Joints |
| title_full | Chest Exercises: Movement and Loading of Shoulder, Elbow and Wrist Joints |
| title_fullStr | Chest Exercises: Movement and Loading of Shoulder, Elbow and Wrist Joints |
| title_full_unstemmed | Chest Exercises: Movement and Loading of Shoulder, Elbow and Wrist Joints |
| title_short | Chest Exercises: Movement and Loading of Shoulder, Elbow and Wrist Joints |
| title_sort | chest exercises movement and loading of shoulder elbow and wrist joints |
| topic | shoulder strength exercise pectoralis training kinetics kinematics |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4663/10/2/19 |
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