Skeletal Anatomy part 2 | 17-muscles of the shoulder | Qualified Level 1 Personal Trainer

What if your understanding of shoulder anatomy could make or break your career as a personal trainer? Join us as we uncover the 17 key actions of the shoulder and the muscles responsible for each movement, such as the supraspinatus, infraspinatus, and deltoids. This episode underscores the critical importance of anatomical mastery, paralleling the extensive training of medical professionals. By emphasizing the need for an in-depth, continuous learning journey, we push trainers to go beyond superficial certifications and truly excel in their profession.

Elevate your skills and confidence by grasping the fundamental anatomy of the shoulder. We challenge trainers to truly invest in their education, highlighting how a solid understanding of muscle locations and functions can transform training programs and client outcomes. Our discussion aims to inspire personal trainers to maintain their enthusiasm for growth and elevate their standards, ultimately aiming to uplift the fitness industry. Listen in for a motivational boost to keep striving for excellence and ensure that your clients receive the best possible care and guidance.

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Speaker 1: 0:01

Welcome to the Show Up Fitness Podcast, where great personal trainers are made. We are changing the fitness industry, one qualified trainer at a time, with our in-person and online personal training certification. If you want to become an elite personal trainer, head on over to showupfitnesscom. Also, make sure to check out my book how to Become a Successful Personal Trainer. Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review. Have a great day and keep showing up. Howdy everybody. Welcome back to the Show Up Fitness Podcast. Happy 4th of July week.

Speaker 1: 0:36

Today was part two, going over shoulder anatomy the first part we really got into the skeletal aspects with the axial and appendicular skeleton, 17 actions of the shoulder, which include nine of the humerus, eight of the scapula. Today we're going to get into the musculature and these are questions that I challenge trainers to have conversations around with level zero trainers. The purpose of these conversations isn't to make people feel bad. It's more of a surveying. Think about if you wanted to become a doctor. Wouldn't you go? Interview a bunch of doctors to see what it's like, learn about med school, the best ones to go to, what internships and fellowships to attend, who are the best doctors? Learn under them. But when it comes to the career of a personal trainer. What's our quote-unquote research? You type in the Google machine the career of a personal trainer. What's our quote-unquote research? You type in the Google machine how to become a personal trainer. You click on the first link and you get your level zero. Nasm, ace, issa, pass that textbook. You're all excited, you post a photo of it, but you have no fucking idea how to train.

Speaker 1: 1:39

Some of the best stories with trainers and coaches. They learn from the best. Dr Waterbury he took the initiative to go learn in the same environment as Grover who was the coach of Michael Jordan, Ben Bruno, the Jason Walshes you see and hear about these stories where they go and find the best internships and then they invest their time and energy to become the best. You have to study the craft day in and day out. Ask a trainer what are the 17 actions of the shoulder? Do you think they know that? And again, I got to keep on saying this why are you on your high horse? No, it's for you to better understand your quote unquote competition. They're not going to know flexion stand. Your quote-unquote competition. They're not going to know flexion. Extension, ab adduction, external, internal rotation, horizontal adduction, horizontal abduction. Scaption what does the scapula do Elevate, depress, protract, retract, upwardly rotate, downwardly rotate, anterior tilt, posterior tilt and the fact that trainers don't know that is going to really let you understand that there isn't competition. So when you dive into this stuff and you invest three hours of studying per hour of learning, you are going to isolate yourself from the fuckery, and that's what I talk about in my book. There is no competition within the fitness industry when it comes to personal training book. There is no competition within the fitness industry when it comes to personal training.

Speaker 1: 3:07

You are going to be competent and confident, being able to talk with doctors, physical therapists, registered dietitians, because trainers aren't doing that. What are trainers doing today? They're seeking more specializations. I got my CES, my PES, my PN1, all textbook certifications. How are you learning from the experts? By reading an esoteric, great word look it up that you cannot interpret. You cannot ask questions. So are you really absorbing that information? The answer is no. And so all the trainers out there that are online, that are confident, it's a false confidence. They have a lot of followers, they look amazing, shirtless or they have big glutes, and so then they're talking to the masses and the masses are listening, and that's the unfortunate thing today. So you need to level up your knowledge so you can help people properly and be prepared to have the conversations. Because when a client is in front of me and they say well, this trainer said that I asked them did the trainer have a level one or a level zero certification? And they go oh, I don't know. Well, level zero is a textbook certification. You see this in Instagram bios. You're going to see NASM, ace, ISSA, nesta all of these textbook certifications. They literally mean nothing. They do not have the qualifications. Level one you're going to see a BS in kinesiology internships. Usually the bio will just say trainer A level one. Show up in a CPT where you articulate what it's like to be a professional in this career. So if you haven't listened to that prior podcast, check that sucker out. You are now an expert with the 17 actions and now we're going to get into the 17 muscles around the shoulder.

Speaker 1: 4:55

When I first started teaching trainers in about 2008-9, I really wanted to level up my knowledge as an instructor. So I would be researching anything and everything about the material I was teaching. And when it came to shoulder anatomy out of college even with one of the best internships in the world with University of Connecticut, I still did not feel a hundred percent confident in teaching this material. I was very fortunate to get linked up with Dr Roche and he is a very respected shoulder surgeon in the Greater Bay Area and he has a book, the Shoulder Patient's Handbook, and in that book he talks about the 17 muscles around the scapula. That was when I was first introduced to that concept of 17 muscles around the shoulder. Like holy shit, I didn't realize it was that complex. And then I met a student who went and learned under Eric Cressy and he would talk about the first day of class. Eric, during his internship, would quiz the interns on the 17 muscles of the shoulder and I just knew that this had to be part of the industry.

Speaker 1: 6:00

If you don't know the 17 muscles around the shoulder, you're not gonna be able to have conversations with doctors and therapists. That's where we need to begin. So we're going to start with the rotator cuff muscles and I always say cuff with an emphasis, because I've heard trainers say cup and there's nothing that makes me roll my eyes more. Your rotator cuff is messed up. No, you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. It's a cuff. There's four muscles. If you remove the deltoid, you cannot palpate for the most part the four rotator cuff muscles. But we're going to begin there. The acronym is SITS, like you're sitting down right now S-I-T-S.

Speaker 1: 6:37

The scapula sits on the rib cage and you have a spine that runs from the medial portion to the lateral side, reaching a point which is referred to as the acromial head of the scapula. That spine, the Latin root, is spinous, so above refers to supra superior and below means infra inferior. So the supraspinatus is above the spine, the infraspinatus is below the spine. Okay, and then we have the teres minor, not the major, just the minor. The word teres means round in Latin and if you look at those teres muscles they have this round shape. And then we have the subscapularis. Sub means underneath. A submarine is out in the ocean, underneath the water Scapula. So it's on the backside of the scapula. But if you were to push on your chest really, really hard and there was no rib right there, you would eventually hit your subscapularis muscle. That is an internal rotator.

Speaker 1: 7:37

Then we're going to get into the majors and minors. Remember we don't major in the minors, but we got to finish off the majors and the minors for our anatomy. We have the teres major, as I just mentioned. Pectoralis major and minor. Pectus in latin means breast, not confused with mammary gland, which is actually the breast itself, and I'm not going to get all pervy. You can go back and listen to my podcast with the plastic surgeon getting into augmentations. But you have that breast bone. On top of it you have the pec minor, which is truly a shoulder muscle, but actually the pec major is not, because it does not originate or insert into the scapula. We'll take a look at that other muscle here shortly.

Speaker 1: 8:19

The reason we include the pec major part of the 17 muscles of the shoulder is because we horizontally push. That's one of the main movers, or the agonist. And then we have the rhomboids, major and minor. Obviously the major is larger than the minor. Rhomboid is a shape. And then we're going to get into the bros muscles. So I'm teaching how I instruct and to learn the 17 muscles around the shoulder. The bros muscles are what most dudes train in the gym.

Speaker 1: 8:47

If you're a bro, you're going to have a bicep and tricep day, usually an arm day. So your bicep brachii Brachii in Latin means arm, tricep means three-headed, bicep means two-headed. We have the deltoid. In the Greek alphabet. Delta is a shape and you can see that it looks very similar to the deltoid muscle. One muscle, three parts. We have a front muscle which is anterior, as it can be seen when you flex the humerus or shoulder raises. You have the medial, head or lateral they're used interchangeably but it should be called lateral, like when you do a lateral raise and then the posterior part which is engaged when you do a reverse fly.

Speaker 1: 9:28

So the deltoid is one muscle, three parts. The trapezius looks like a trapezoid one muscle, three parts as well. You have the upper, middle and lower. And then we have the latissimus dorsi. In Latin latissimus means widest part. Dorsi is making reference to dorsal or back part. So the latissimus dorsi is a very large back muscle, a dorsal or back part. So the latissimus dorsi is a very large back muscle. That's 14 muscles.

Speaker 1: 10:01

The last three are going to be the coracobrachialis. Coracoid is making reference to a part on the scapula. That's where it originates and it goes into that upper part of the arm. It's a flexor. A lot of textbooks don't even mention the coracobrachialis. And then we have the levator scapula, which means elevate the scapula, and lastly we have the serratus anterior. It looks like a serrated knife on the front side, but it reaches way back into the medial part of the scapula, so it really reaches anteriorly to posteriorly and it protracts the scapula. It's a really cool muscle. Check that one out online.

Speaker 1: 10:36

And the last one, the 17th muscle, the true 17th muscle is one that you would be quizzed on if you ever went on. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? And if they were to ask which of the following muscles originates or inserts into the scapula, and if it were to have your brachialis, your pectoralis major, your omohyoid or your scalene, you would need to know that the omohyoid is going to be the 17th muscle. Hyoid is a bone and it's this U-shaped bone on the neck. And then the Latin root, omo, which is O-M-O, is making reference to the shoulder, so it literally is the most iconic shoulder muscle. We just don't see it a lot in textbooks. But now you know.

Speaker 1: 11:13

So you may be thinking, chris, I'm a trainer of 10 years. My clients have never asked me this, so I want you just to understand the process that the average trainer goes through. They read a textbook. A year later they're not training. Well, why is that? The two biggest reasons they don't have the confidence and they're not competent. So how do you increase your confidence? You have to become very competent, so you have to understand the fundamentals. How do you get great at programming? You need to understand anatomy.

Speaker 1: 11:41

Go to a seminar from Tony Genicor, eric Cressy, brett Contreras, chad Waterbury, prehab Guys, luke Worthington. They will use this vocabulary it's skeletal, muscular orientation. This is the basics. Could you imagine a basketball player asking for that orange round thing? Can you give me that orange round thing?

Speaker 1: 12:02

People would look at you. What the fuck did he just say? Or she say, what did she say? You would look like an absolute idiot. Do you want to look? No, you want to turn your passion for fitness into a career. So don't look like a fucking idiot.

Speaker 1: 12:19

Master this stuff and when you do, you will see that the whole entire landscape of the fitness industry is a blue ocean for your taking. You can go out there and help so many people properly without scaring them. Here's an overhead score assessment. Let's do the FMS and make you look like an idiot. You don't need to do that stuff. Sure, you may increase your sales for the time being, but you're going to be wasting time going down rabbit holes and specializations that don't ultimately help your clients get the results, because that is the number one thing clients want to look amazing naked, look great naked. I believe that is the website that Dr Schoenfeld has. So I've been Brad Schoenfeld. That is his website because, as a practitioner in this industry and a professor, he's referred to as Dr Hypertrophy what a cool fucking name. He has that website because he realizes that is the number one thing people want.

Speaker 1: 13:19

It doesn't matter if you're an athlete, general population or 80. We want to feel great in our skin, as the great Socrates said. Socrates, you have to watch Bill and Ted's to understand that one, no man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which the body is capable of. We need to take that as a trainer and let that just marinate in your brain. And what that's making reference to from a physical standpoint is asking yourself are you in the best shape of your life? What can you do to attain that and achieve it? There's nothing better than holding that trophy up. You won. You feel great because you earned that.

Speaker 1: 14:06

But we also should add some things to this. The great Socrates, master of philosophy, but the hunk belt buckle trainer is going to add something in here. No individual woman or man should grow old without seeing the beauty and strength and the capabilities of what the mental aspects are. As a personal trainer, do you know this stuff? No, great, level up, get excited. Invest into anatomy. You're going to see. Everything else comes so much easier. You don't need to waste money on the dumbest certifications like a corrective exercise, which literally is just learning anatomy. You wasted $800 on a stupid ass cert that you put in your bio which tells every true medical professional that you are insecure because you don't need to be a corrective exercise specialist. You need to be confident in your role as a professional, as a trainer, and that's what we are. We are medical professionals. So level yourself up.

Speaker 1: 15:10

Get into those 17 muscles around the shoulder. I'm going to say them one last time with some speed behind them. Get into your story. Challenge people this weekend during 4th of July. Get into some of those tender areas, or hypertonic, as we teach with our level two.

Speaker 1: 15:26

You need to know all 17 part of level one, level two, you need to know their actions. So we have the supraspinatus, the infraspinatus, the teres, minor subscapularis. Teres major rhomboid, major rhomboid, minor pec, major pec, minor deltoids, biceps, brachii, triceps brachii, latissimus dorsi trapezius, the coracobrachialis levator scapular and the serratus anterior. You need to be able to pronunciate them as well and if we were to ask you where the muscle is, you need to be able to show us. That's part of the level one show fitness CPT.

Speaker 1: 16:03

Along with knowing where the lower body 20 muscles are, which I will do in a later episode, you need to know the eight core movement patterns and the agonist associated with them and then design a program on the spot that is going to give you the fundamentals for one year later. You're not going to be that statistic of which the industry is dreadfully seeing increase as the years go by. Why are we continually to follow blindly when it's not working? Level yourself up, get into anatomy, master this stuff and you will become a successful personal trainer. I fucking guarantee it. And remember, big biceps are better than small ones, and keep showing up.