With that said: a substantial portion of the long-term shoulder issues in trained adults trace back to one variable. Push-to-pull volume balance. Picture the lifter every coach has met — benches five days a week, rows once, does no rear-delt work, has never touched a face pull. By year three, the anterior shoulder pain has started. By year five, it has stayed.
This is preventable. The Shoulder Health Field Guide is 22 pages on the prevention and correction framework that has protected the shoulders of lifters Nelson has coached for fifteen-plus years.
Inside this one
- 22-page pocket field guide for general shoulder resilience (not for active injury)
- The 2:1 pull-to-push ratio — programmed, dosed, sustainable across decades
- The three pillars — mobility, scapular control, rotator cuff strength
- Pressing technique and warm-up sequence for healthier loading
- Cross-referenced with Vol. 35 (Posture & Pain) and FG18 (Lower Back)
- Full Technical Addendum with peer-reviewed citations — audit me
The standard it is held to
Every factual claim in this volume names its source, and every claim carries a confidence grade — settled, strong, emerging or contested. Where the evidence is thin, the text says so. How it’s made, in full → · What we’ve got wrong →