Your rotator cuff handles 3 muscle groups’ workload because your thoracic spine and scapula stabilizers quit years ago. Rotator cuff exercises are not the answer when your rotator cuff is not the problem. Here is what actually happens. You sit all day. Your thoracic spine locks into flexion. Your scapula stabilizers forget how to hold your shoulder blades in place. Your pec minor shortens and pulls your shoulder forward. Now your rotator cuff has to work overtime just to keep the joint from impinging every time you lift your arm. It is not weak. It is overwhelmed. Doing more isolated rotator cuff work in that state is like putting better tyres on a car with a bent axle. The tyres are not the problem. The structure underneath is. You have to open the thoracic spine first. Then wake up the scapula stabilizers. Then strengthen the rotator cuff in a position where it can actually do its job properly. That order matters. This reel walks through three exercises that follow that exact seq...