I took a deloading week last week cuz my right shoulder was starting to ache. It hurts when I do a lateral raise, and mildly hurts when I do any bench pressing or military pressing. I think it’s because I was doing too much lat raises…my shoulders never liked them but for some reason I keep coming back to em. Anyway. The only thing that doesnt hurt AT ALL, is all pulling movements and leg exercises.
My question is, while my shoulder is healing, would it be ok to continue to do pulling and leg workouts and give pressing a break? Or would I develop a back chest imbalance? I probably just need break from pressing ex’s for at most a few weeks. What do you guys think?
Imbalance is not something you develop over night. A few weeks, even a few months will be no problem.
What is certain, is that you need to stay away from whatever exercises hurt. Don’t fuck yourself up.
I’ve had some shoulder problems myself, and there were times when i would only train legs, and some back work for months at the time.
Whenever you have an injury, what you need to do is give it time to heal/see a professional about it, and then just forget about it for the time being. Instead, focus on what you actually can do. You’ve fucked up parts of your upper body, give your legs the beating of their lifetime.
[quote]sphaw wrote:
Imbalance is not something you develop over night. A few weeks, even a few months will be no problem.
What is certain, is that you need to stay away from whatever exercises hurt. Don’t fuck yourself up.
I’ve had some shoulder problems myself, and there were times when i would only train legs, and some back work for months at the time.
Whenever you have an injury, what you need to do is give it time to heal/see a professional about it, and then just forget about it for the time being. Instead, focus on what you actually can do. You’ve fucked up parts of your upper body, give your legs the beating of their lifetime.[/quote]
Ok, then I’ll have no problem dropping what hurts for a while. Thanks!
You can continue doing pulling movements, but I would stick with the horizontal variations for now. You probably already have an imbalance going on which led to the shoulder problems. Post pics of your posture so we can take a look as well as start reading EC’s shoulder savors parts 1-3. It sounds like you have a form of impingement going on in your shoulder.
I had a shoulder injury that I felt when i did some shoulder exercises as well as the incline bench.
At first, i tried to just avoid the shoulder/incline bench exercises; however, this did nothing as the problem persisted. I then started working out with really light wieght in the 20 to 30 rep range for shoulder exercises. I could feel a little discomfort in my shoulder doing the exercises; however, it wasnt the type of discomfort that felt like it was further aggravating the injury (however, working out with heavy weight did not feel this way-- this is reason i went to light wieght). After a couple months, the injury went away. I dont think without this high rep training it would of gone away on its own.
I dont know if this type of training would help your problem or not; but is something to think about as not strenghing or completely avoiding a body part that might already be weak or out of balance with other body parts may not be the best approach.