Tip The One Exercise You Need to Do More Often Search Skip to content Menu Menu follow us Store Articles Community Loyal-T Club Loyal-T Points Rewards Subscribe to Save Search Search The World s Trusted Source & Community for Elite Fitness Training Tip The One Exercise You Need to Do More Often It improves posture shoulder health and much more Check it out by Dr John Rusin June 25, 2017November 24, 2021 Tags Bodybuilding, Powerlifting & Strength, Tips, Training What s Your Ratio If you struggle with your posture, your pressing power, or your shoulder health, you need to be doing as many face pulls as possible throughout the week. For optimal shoulder health, your weekly pull-to-push ratios should break down to 2:1 for the average person, or up to 3:1 if you sit for prolonged periods of time or you have an injury history around the shoulders, neck, or upper back. Due to the restorative range of motion that the face pull brings your shoulders, you truly can't get enough of this type of movement. So how do we get in that much "pull" volume? Add movements like the banded face pull into your normal programming in superset fashion. Between sets of pressing or direct shoulder work, simply add in 5-15 reps of banded face pulls in a post-fatigue type setup in order to maximize the trainability of the upper back (working into those ratios) while not adding any more joint or CNS stress into the equation. Adding in banded face pulls throughout your dynamic warm-up in superset schemes can also skyrocket your overall pulling volume, again without doing a ton more highly stressful pulling movements like rows, deadlifts or high-angle vertical pulling. Sprinkling in banded face pulls between your sets of direct shoulder work not only helps solidify your programming ratios, but they'll also elicit the metabolic pump effect. Any time you can maximize the localized blood flow into the tissue to extend a set without adding any more joint stress, that's a win for shoulder health. Get The T Nation Newsletters Don' t Miss Out Expert Insights To Get Stronger, Gain Muscle Faster, And Take Your Lifting To The Next Level related posts Training Tip How to Make the Cable Crunch Really Work If you can do a ton of weight or a ton of reps on this exercise, you're doing it wrong. Here's how to make it really work. Exercise Coaching, Tips Christian Thibaudeau January 19 Training Gina Aliotti Supergirl What happens when a bodybuilder and a nutrition store owner get together and make a baby? What happens when this baby is raised on health foods? What happens when she starts training with weights at age 14? Training Chris Shugart September 25 Training Tip Go Deep With Technique Are you really mastering a lift or mobility drill? Probably not. Here's why. Deadlift, Mobility, Tips, Training Tom Morrison July 29 Training Tip How to Lunge for Big Quads & Glutes Some trainers call this bad form. Then again, some trainers are kinda dumb. Check it out. Tips, Training Joel Seedman, PhD December 29