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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