I am new to this site and all of your training styles but I have been reading through all of your techniques and I really think they look increadible. I started doing your built for bad workouts too and I really liked them.
My question is this: What would you suggest for training when you can not use one shoulder for pressing exersizes? My shoulder has been bothering me for a couple of months now. I think I may have injured it doing flyes at the end of the summer (I have stopped doing them since about september).
I have tried working around the injury by not doing overhead pressing, icing, stretching, heat, laying off bicep exersizes (I think it might be related to bicep tendon irritation) but it just wont go away and I am afraid of it turning into a rotator cuff tear. So, I decided I just need to completely rest it until it is healed. I am on my second week of complete rest for my uperbody and my shoulder is indeed feeling much better but I estimate I will need at least another two to three weeks.
Then I plan on doing two weeks of very low weight strengthening and stretching exercises and then move into low weight lifts. I am really ansy though and I dont want to lose all the strenth that I have been working to gain. Right now I am keeping with my lower body work of squats and deadlifts as they down bother the shoulder at all. I also can still do farmer’s carry no problem.
What sort of back work are you doing? Specifically lower and mid traps (besides deadlifts).
I’ve had some biceps tendon inflammation from dips and/or barbell curls, and that went away after a couple weeks. I currently am healing from what appears to be (per a sports medicine doctor) a rotator cuff impingement issue, and that’s been healing for several months. I tried resting things, and I tried various rotator cuff strengthening exercises like YTWLs and Cuban Presses but those didn’t help.
Two things I’ve found: 1) face pulls really seem to help quite a bit. 2) avoid anything that hurts at all, even if it “doesn’t really hurt”. Any sign of pain, no matter how minor, may contribute to inflammation and slow down healing.
For me this meant cutting out overhead pressing of any kind, and cutting out anything that involved holding the bar in a front rack position. Bench pressing has been fine as long as the bar isn’t brought down too low… my ROM has increased though as things have healed. Deadlifts, back squats, SGHPs, those have all been fine.
I was doing shrugs upright rows and reverse flys. Over the last month before I started resting I had switched to just doing high pulls as I was trying out the build for bad program. I was thinking it might be a biceps thing as the tendon was sore on the inside of my arm if I really got in there and “strummed” it.
So you are saying I should keep working out or just keep up with the resting for a while? I feel like I can tolerate the resting if I can avoid getting into a situation where I get a SLAP injury or something that needs doctors attention but that even while resting I should still be able to work a lot of muscles. For instance the deadlifts dont hurt at all, shrugs dont hurt, farmers carries dont hurt, actually curls and pull ups dont hurt either but because I am worried it might be the biceps thing you mentioned I have been laying off them. Bench I think would not hurt if I did less range of motion and less explosiveness, rear delt and even lateral raises dont hurt…