Cable External Rotation: how to do it and form tips

A rotator cuff isolation exercise performed at a cable machine, strengthening the infraspinatus and teres minor muscles essential for shoulder health and injury prevention.

Form tips

  1. Keep your elbow pinned at 90 degrees against your side throughout, if the elbow drifts, the isolation is lost.
  2. Rotate outward as far as comfortable without shrugging your shoulder toward your ear.
  3. Use very light weight; this is a health and prehab exercise, not a strength exercise.
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