The Health & Fitness Show with Tracy - Podcast
The Health & Fitness Show with Tracy is your source of practical, uplifting, and science-rooted guidance for living a stronger, safer, and more confident life — at any age.
Hosted by Tracy Markley, internationally recognized fitness educator, award-winning author, stroke recovery specialist, and creator of the bestselling books The Stroke Recovery Workbook, Brain & Body, and Balance Walking and Fall Prevention, this podcast blends expertise with heart. Tracy’s decades of experience helping stroke survivors, seniors, and everyday adults rebuild strength, balance, mobility, and hope shine through every episode.
Whether you’re looking to improve your proprioception, feel steadier on your feet, better understand your body, prevent falls, recover from injury, or simply age with power and grace, this show gives you real tools — not fluff. Tracy brings compassion, clear explanations, and encouraging motivation to help you feel capable, empowered, and ready to move forward.
🎧 Tune in for:
- Balance, gait, and fall-prevention tips
- Stroke recovery insights from one of the most trusted voices in the field
- Fitness and mobility guidance for seniors and pre-seniors
- Brain–body education and nervous system support
- Strength training, walking programs, and functional movement
- Real stories from people who regained independence and confidence
- Encouragement, mindset support, and realistic strategies you can use today
- Hearing loss
- Fitness and exercise for all ages
- Muscles, joints, ligaments, fascia and more
- and much more
⭐ Learn More & Stay Connected
Website: https://www.tracymarkley.com
Books by Tracy Markley: https://www.amazon.com/author/tracymarkley
YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/@TracyMarkley
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tracy.markley
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tracyfitt
⭐ Your Host
Tracy Markley is a fitness trainer, educator, and author known for blending anatomy, neuroscience, and compassion to help others move better and live better. Her work has transformed lives around the world — from stroke survivors rebuilding mobility to adults who simply want their body to feel like home again
The Health & Fitness Show with Tracy - Podcast
Rotator Cuff Muscles
The shoulder is one of the most mobile — and most vulnerable — joints in the body.
In this educational and easy-to-understand episode, fitness professional and movement specialist Tracy L. Markley explains the four rotator cuff muscles, what they do, why they matter, and how injuries commonly occur.
Many people don’t realize that rotator cuff injuries are often misdiagnosed, misunderstood, or worsened by incorrect exercise form. Tracy breaks down how the rotator cuff stabilizes the shoulder joint, why certain motions place extra stress on it, and how to move in ways that protect rather than strain these delicate muscles.
Listeners will learn how everyday habits, posture, improper lifting, and poor exercise technique can all contribute to shoulder pain — and how awareness and proper mechanics can help prevent injury.
IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:
- The four rotator cuff muscles and what each one does
- Why the shoulder joint depends on the rotator cuff for stability
- Common ways people injure the rotator cuff (and don’t realize it)
- Why some injuries are misdiagnosed or mistaken for other problems
- How poor form during exercise can harm the shoulder
- Tips to move safely and protect the shoulder joint
- The connection between posture, scapular movement, and shoulder health
- How proper muscle engagement helps prevent long-term issues
Whether you're active, recovering from an injury, working with clients, or simply want to understand your body better, this episode brings clarity to one of the most misunderstood areas of the musculoskeletal system.
🌐 LEARN MORE FROM TRACY
Website: www.tracymarkley.com
Amazon Author Page: www.amazon.com/author/tracymarkley
Stroke Recovery Bookstore: www.strokerecoverybooks.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/motivate_healthyfit