STOP Doing Face Pulls Like This! (I’M BEGGING YOU)

The face pull is an incredible exercise for not only building the rear delts and upper back muscles, but there is one way that people screw up the face pull. Luckily, there is a simple fix that will make sure you get the exercise done correctly every single time you do it. First, it is important to understand the benefits of the exercise - not only is it going to help build muscle at the right loads, but it acts as an incredible corrective exercise to keep your shoulders healthy and working forever. Face pulls are primarily an exercise that reinforces external rotation of the shoulder joint. Training this function is important as we often spend our time with internally rotated shoulders. Internal rotation can lead to dysfunction, discomfort, and potentially injury as well. Unless we train the external rotator muscles in the shoulder, undoing that bad posture of internally rotated shoulders becomes that much more difficult. Believe me, for the best performance and healthy shoulders, you ar