Circling Back is a shoulder endurance workout with a corporate calendar's favorite phrase and a very literal interpretation. Arm circles, wide arm circles, two 10-count holds at full extension and closing arm twists - seventy reps and twenty counts per set, all performed with the arms out at shoulder height, per our last discussion.
The structure alternates rotation with stillness, and both are meetings your delts cannot decline. The small circles open the thread - ten tight rotations that feel like nothing until they do not. The first hold follows: arms parked at full extension, motionless, ten counts of pure isometric attendance. Wide arm circles escalate the agenda, sweeping bigger arcs that multiply the leverage, before the second hold circles back to stillness on more tired shoulders. The arm twists close the loop, rotating the whole arm along its length - palms turning skyward and floorward - to touch the rotator muscles the circles missed. Nothing here is heavy. Everything here is continuous, which any shoulder can tell you is a very different email.
Altitude is the entire deliverable: arms at shoulder height from the first circle to the last twist, no drooping between blocks. Keep the small circles small and the wide circles genuinely wide - the difference between them is the workout. In the holds, reach long through the fingertips rather than merely surviving, and keep the twists slow and full.
Just circling back on this - your shoulders have seen the thread and will be burning by end of day.
Make it Harder: Double both holds to a 20-count.
Make it Easier: Drop your arms for one breath between blocks.
