Are Bartenders Shaking Too Hard?

Are Bartenders Shaking Too Hard?

"WHEN we first started Varnish, we began sustaining a bunch of injuries," Marcos Tello said. "I had a huge, constant knot in my forearm. Chris Ojeda developed tennis elbow. Matty Eggleston popped a tendon in his hand. We were all sidelined with all these injuries."

Varnish is not a football team. It is a stylish, speakeasy-style cocktail bar that opened early last year in downtown Los Angeles. And the men Mr. Tello mentions are fellow bartenders, ranging in age from mid-20s to mid-30s. But in these heady days of behind-the-bar showmanship, when theatrical agitations of shakers filled with heavy-duty ice are becoming the norm, the mixologist's physical lot is not so terribly far removed from an athlete's.

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