[quote]Is the left shoulder only higher when you your pressing? standing press? bench press?(have someone look at you when you bench, or are you able to tell that your left and right shoulders are asymmetrical while benching?)
Or is it higher in everyday life activities as well. [/quote]
Only when I get into position for the OHP.
I know I used to have some sort of asymmetry when benching. Basically I leaned heavily to the right when the weight started to get heavy and I just felt really unbalanced.
But doing cherry-picked days (this is where the protraction/retractions come from) from the Diesel Crew shoulder rehab program and face-pulls more or less got rid of it.
Didn’t seem to help the OHP all that much though.
-No difference in the rows thus far. Left side is slightly weaker though; the DB doesn’t come up as fast as if I did the rep on the right side.
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Regarding your biceps, I wasn’t able to make a correlation but tell me if you see a pattern between your biceps and the db curls you do 5x5 or 3x5 (I would assume these are your 5,6,7 rm loads for your curls?) [/quote]
Na, bicep pain comes only during the bench press. I think the issue was that I placed some load onto my left bicep (where the pain is) somehow due to poor back positioning. Tinkered with the back position for the last couple of weeks and found one where the pain went away. So, for now, everything seems great.
The curls are something I just do with no real intent or programming behind them. I just have small biceps and I figured I should slowly get that worked on.
Regarding grip- I’ve done those for a while but none of them helped. Ultimately just pulling as heavy as I can with chalk was the solution.
I just don’t like using chalk because it takes time to clean up, so I prefer not to use it unless I plan on actually doing proper hard work on the deadlift. I recently got some straps so I’ll probably use them for the TnG instead. No real point having grip being a limitation on those.