The Standing Cuban Rotation with dumbbells achieves several objectives in building stronger and high performing shoulders. In no particular order: You learn from this exercise how to maintain elbow positioning while rotating primarily through your shoulder joint. You train the infraspinatus in a standing position, with the shoulders elevated; this context is similar to the cycling of an olympic lift. You learn to have symmetry between sides, which is important for anyone using a barbell since yo

Salsa isn’t just a genre — it’s Black history in motion. 🖤🔥🎶 Its roots trace back to Afro-Cuban rhythms like son, rumba, and mambo 🥁🇨🇺 — where instruments like the congas and the clave came directly from African musical traditions carried to the Caribbean by enslaved people. The tempo, the syncopation, the heartbeat of the music… that foundation is African. Without it, you don’t have salsa. ✊🏾🌍 And when those rhythms reached New York City with Cuban and Puerto Rican migrants in the mid-2