Brrr, still no central heating! Still, today we treated ourselves to fish, chips and mushy peas, served with mugs of tea in front of a coal fire. Wonderful stuff.

Anyway, the good news is that after eight weeks of following The Ultimate Rotator Cuff Training Guide my shoulder is much better. There's still a little bit of stiffness in there, but it is 95% of the way to a full recovery. I've been able to resume full-on weight training, although I will continue to avoid certain exercises and now do modified versions of some others. I've started a new weight training regime based on alternating heavy weeks and light weeks. I'll cover that in more detail soon.

I suppose you could ask whether it would have improved to the same degree if I had just rested it for eight weeks, rather than following the programme. I don't know the answer to that, but I do feel certain that the exercises have strengthened the rotator cuff muscles such that the problem is less likely to recur. This should continue to improve as I do the maintenance exercises recommended by the programme. Furthermore, as noted above I now know what to avoid to reduce the risk of further problems.

In summary I think this was money well spent.