I have tendonitis in the shoulder caused by benching. What exercises out there will replace dips as an exercise? Is the overhead/dumbell press suitable? Is there anything better?
I am doing GVT and I am on shoulder and arms day so I will be doing 10 sets of 10
[quote]Hawkson101 wrote:
I have tendonitis in the shoulder caused by benching. What exercises out there will replace dips as an exercise? Is the overhead/dumbell press suitable? Is there anything better?
I am doing GVT and I am on shoulder and arms day so I will be doing 10 sets of 10[/quote]
I may have totally missed something here, but dips and overhead dumbell presses are not even simlar except I guess that they do both hit the tri’s. Don’t take this the wrong way, but you weren’t doing dips for shoulders right?
–Tiribulus->
[quote]Hawkson101 wrote:
I have tendonitis in the shoulder caused by benching. What exercises out there will replace dips as an exercise? Is the overhead/dumbell press suitable? Is there anything better?
I am doing GVT and I am on shoulder and arms day so I will be doing 10 sets of 10[/quote]
For now, it would smart to skip “shoulder day” and not do GVT.
GL,
Danny
3 words. Active Release Treatment. I swear, I have gotten 5 sessions in and my shoulders are 90% better. Try it out before you quit overhead pressing, it’s a staple movement.
Monopoly
Yep I misunderstood, sorry.
–Tiribulus->
[quote]Monopoly19 wrote:
3 words. Active Release Treatment. I swear, I have gotten 5 sessions in and my shoulders are 90% better. Try it out before you quit overhead pressing, it’s a staple movement.
Monopoly[/quote]
how do you hook up with the active release people? i am very interested in that for my shoulder. is it covered by medical insurance? thanks.
Active Release is typically performed by Chiropractors or physical therapists (which I am). It does work, but you should also look into correcting the muscle imbalance that is present in your shoulder. Look into a shoulder specialist orthopaedic surgeon in your area and request to work with a shoulder specialist PT. He’ll hook you up with some exercises to correct the muscle imbalance with minimal time lost at the gym. Best of luck.
Mike
My shoulders always hurt after I get done with my pressing day. I have started using the Rear delt excercises, or at least a couple, from CT’s hs 100 for shoulders. I have also started doing scapular wall slides, scap push-ups and poor mans shoulder horn.
After each pressing session, I put blue-goo on both my shoulders. I would reccomend blue-goo to anyone, and I got mine from wal-mart. Its just a topical pain killer, but it seems to work a million times better then other topical pain killer, and its great fun if you can get a woman to put it on your back.
Between sets of any kind of pressing, if you are just sitting around, take two fingers and go in a circular motion on each of your front delts. It seems to help.
Also, make sure you are stretching your shoulders. Lock you fingers behind your head, and try to move your elbows back. Do this a few times a day, and your shoulders will start to feel a might bit better.
One last thing to consider is to make sure your posture is good.
I was planning on doing dips for shoulders. what should i do instead?