Shoulder Pain With Overhead Lifts

Training Beginners
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Hey all

After “working out” off and on for a while I am currently in the first week of the Starting Strength program (doing the stronglifts variation: StrongLifts 5×5 Workout Program: The Definitive Guide | StrongLifts)

Anyways, I have an old snowboarding R shoulder injury that nags me all the time. The workout yesterday called for deadlifts but I was doing it at home due to circumstances so I tried to substitute some heavier DB lunges just to do something. During the forward progression of the movement my R shoulder had a pretty sharp pain that made me stop holding on to the DB as well as stop the lunges altogether. Any idea what could be wrong?

I have done the Dieselcrew shoulder rehab/prehab protocol in the past:

which seemed to help at the time but then I got sidetracked for a month and jumping back into the lifting may have aggrevated something in the shoulder.

The Stronglifts 5x5 has me doing overhead/military presses as well as dips. No pain during the dips, and there is sometimes a slight pain in the overhead lifts when I bring the weight up to begin the reps (not during the actual movement itself).

Any clues, ideas, suggestions?

thx much

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Try a reverse grip military press.

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If it hurts, don’t do it. The program is written for people with no injuries. Try dumbbells with nuetral grip or some other exercise that accomplishes the same thing.

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Well the thing that is confusing to me a bit is that the actual motion of the overhead lift doesn’t hurt, but moving the weight up into position does hurt (so i guess like the clean movement, dumbells or barbell). If I ease it up one at a time or something I can get past the pain.

thx for the advice