Kill those flies!

"But what about the great burn I get in the middle of the chest?" I hear someone asking. Sure, when I was into flies I felt the same thing. Too bad it turned out me mostly feeling tension in the cartilage between the ribs and the sternum.

...And when I'm at it, I would also like to kill another exercise I've seen around gyms for the past years. Ever seen a guy stand with light dumbbells in his hands, upper arms straight out to the sides and 90 degree angle in his elbows, rotating his arms from vertical to horizontal? If you ask him what he's doing, he'll proudly inform you that he is right now taking care of his rotator cuffs, thankyouverymuch.

...And considering what you know about two vulnerable joints in that area which gets pressed pretty tight at that angle, adding the back-and-forth motion, you can also conclude that the dude is doing a nice job of actually sawing his bicep and supraspinatus joints off. Any questions?

(Want to learn more about anatomy? Search the Web for good sources, such as http://www.faseb.org/anatomy/hotlinks.html.)

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