My right shoulder is hurting a little, when I put it into certain positions. I think it is from some behind-the-neck presses that I’ve been doing (which I’ve recently stopped).
I think its a rotator cuff issue.
My question is this: I’ve been improving on my bench press recently. I went from 2553 to 2753 in the last month. (I’ve been eating well and doing CW’s Quattro Dynamo). When I bench, the last couple times, I’ve needed to warm up a lot more than usual so that my shoulder doesn’t hurt. I was going to go for 285*3 tonight, but I don’t want to injure myself.
Pain level? on a 0-10 scale, 10 being the worst, its about a 2 or 3. After i warm up, its just barely noticeable when i’m benching.
[quote]weightliftr wrote:
My right shoulder is hurting a little, when I put it into certain positions. I think it is from some behind-the-neck presses that I’ve been doing (which I’ve recently stopped).
I think its a rotator cuff issue.
My question is this: I’ve been improving on my bench press recently. I went from 2553 to 2753 in the last month. (I’ve been eating well and doing CW’s Quattro Dynamo). When I bench, the last couple times, I’ve needed to warm up a lot more than usual so that my shoulder doesn’t hurt. I was going to go for 285*3 tonight, but I don’t want to injure myself.
Pain level? on a 0-10 scale, 10 being the worst, its about a 2 or 3. After i warm up, its just barely noticeable when i’m benching.[/quote]
good call on stopping the BTN presses. If you aren’t rowing enough, start now. Also add in external rotations, and read Cressey’s should savers articles.
[quote]bruinsdmb wrote:
good call on stopping the BTN presses. If you aren’t rowing enough, start now. Also add in external rotations, and read Cressey’s should savers articles. [/quote]
Agreed.
Ensure you are doing as much, if not more pulling than pushing. Especially while your shoulder is hurting.
You should be doing Bent Rows, Weighted Chins, Weighted Pull-Ups, and even seated rows.
Not sure where my previous post went, but I had the same issue late last year, it got worse until I went to the doctor, got an arthrogram, which messed up the joint. Yay!
Then a physio told me it was due to an impalance between my chest and back and I needed to get my back up to par. It will take time, take it easy on the bench for a while otehrwise it will get worse.
thanks for the feedback. I do a pretty balanced workout, and my back is about as strong as my chest. I really think its the behind the neck presses, particularly because my shoulder felt weird after doing them.
I think I’ll bench tonight, and if it hurts, I’ll stop.
[quote]weightliftr wrote:
thanks for the feedback. I do a pretty balanced workout, and my back is about as strong as my chest. I really think its the behind the neck presses, particularly because my shoulder felt weird after doing them.
I think I’ll bench tonight, and if it hurts, I’ll stop. [/quote]
Go ahead and add some external rotations and such to your routine too.
Start Pre/rehab NOW dont let it get bad. Dont do anything that hurts get it to heal and keep up with things for shoulder health like the external rotations, shoulder horn. check Out EC’s shoulder saver series.
Better to get it now then have a serious injury or more pain. let me tell you its a pain.
[quote]weightliftr wrote:
thanks for the feedback. I do a pretty balanced workout, and my back is about as strong as my chest. I really think its the behind the neck presses, particularly because my shoulder felt weird after doing them.
I think I’ll bench tonight, and if it hurts, I’ll stop. [/quote]
Interesting!
In another thread you discuss your ‘log’ and it shows that you bench more than you squat. Yet you consider yourself and your workout to be balanced.
You asked for advice and then said -‘no, you guys don’t know, I’ll just continue to bench.’
Call me when you need an ortho. A lot of guys I see getting ready for the beach all use the same guy.