For a long time (as long as I can remember) I had been having a great deal of trouble with locking out a kettlebell overhead on my right side, despite being very right hand dominant and generally a lot stronger on my right side. I could only hold overhead lockout on the right for 75% of the time I could hold it on the left – not good! I was finding that my anterior deltoid on the right was fatiguing really quickly and my right arm would then start drifting laterally. I put it down to weak upper and mid traps and rhomboids on the right side due to an old whiplash injury that was mismanaged and resulted in some long term weakness and a decent amount of scar tissue throughout the right side of my neck and upper back. These muscle groups undoubtedly contributed, but no amount of massage, dry needling or rehab exercises made significant or long term improvements in my overhead lockout. My anterior delt was still taking the brunt of the overhead lifting, which is far from ideal. A couple of weeks ago the problems with my right overhead lockout got quite bad – not good [...]