Too heavy preacher curls with a differently shaped ez bar than the one I normally used cost me a torn bicep last year.
I used to occasionally have something get stuck in my back during the last set of deads when fatigue and sloppy form started to set it. This could hurt all the way from the right side of the lower back to the right butt cheek.
After I stopped doing deads from the floor and started doing rack deads from slightly below the knee exclusively I have not had that problem.
i pooped my spine doing deadlifts. my setup just didn’t feel right but i was like its just 375 its easy…i had to lie down to get dressed for like a week
Close grip rack lockouts for triceps, very heavy weight.
Tore my shoulder up all nice doing those. Other than that, been pretty fortunate.
haha than my deepest appologies, in the past, benchpress and deadlifts have given me the most grief, although overhead dumbell press and upright rows work wonders in pain enhancement for my shoulders also
Number 3 is the only exercise I still do.
[quote]RSGZ wrote:
Upright rows gave me a nagging shoulder and minor wrist injury - I hate that exercise.[/quote]
Ditto that.
squats atg-lower back
Had minor tears in both rotator cuffs from benching with poor form.
Dislocated left shoulder on the last rep of the last set of heavy incline db press - it popped back in when I sat up but my left shoulder has never been the same since. For example when I try to take a shirt off by grabbing with my left arm the right bottom of the shirt and with my right the left bottom and pulling it up over my head, my left shoulder will half of the time pop right out of its socket.
[quote]gutshot wrote:
Had minor tears in both rotator cuffs from benching with poor form.
Dislocated left shoulder on the last rep of the last set of heavy incline db press - it popped back in when I sat up but my left shoulder has never been the same since. For example when I try to take a shirt off by grabbing with my left arm the right bottom of the shirt and with my right the left bottom and pulling it up over my head, my left shoulder will half of the time pop right out of its socket.[/quote]
Same here. That being said, barbell benching, and just about any shoulder pressing movement is a no-go for me.
As someone else mentioned, close-grip benching can be pretty brutal on the wrists, too, as well as front squats.
I have had a couple minor tears in my quads from squats and will get the occasional shoulder strain from benching. The worst injuries in my opinion are hand/wrist injuries. Every once in a while I will get them on Olympic lifts and will have a forearm strain occasionally. Gawd they are awful, just totally zaps my strenght to lift anything.
popped my left shoulder twice & right shoulder once while doing pullovers. Squats used to hurt my knees, corrected my form & technique & that became ok.
Box Squats- Forgot to fasten the plates on one side of the bar while squatting 315 on my sixth set when I was 16. Was speed day for me. Fucked both knees, still hurt sometime. Hadn’t got the money for rehab at the time.
Close stance squats-I made the mistake of listening to the advice of some idiot at the gym and did 15 minutes of cardio before squats. My legs where pumped as fuck, especially my groin. Went to do a few warm up squats and friggin groin hurt. Fuck cardio, stretching always worked for me as a warm up. Groin is kinda fine now.
[quote]RSGZ wrote:
Upright rows gave me a nagging shoulder and minor wrist injury - I hate that exercise.[/quote]
Same here, I did them for 10 years before some bright spark finally said, “Oh, guess what, these are bad for the shoulders!!” and they were widely disadvised.
Now I have a minor impingement/bursitis/tendonitis or whatever-the-fuck in my left shoulder which flares up on Bench/Dips.
So who can I sue??
Dumbbell bench 120’s without warming up enough…my left pec/shoulder still bugs and I’ve now decided to take it easy on the chest for a while in hopes of rehabbing it.
DG
[quote]NewDamage wrote:
Close grip rack lockouts for triceps, very heavy weight.
Tore my shoulder up all nice doing those. Other than that, been pretty fortunate.[/quote]
Same here for me with this one.
Starting out in lifting I did:
Turns out I strained my left lower back <QL?> - still nags me to this day, I think it may be some SERIOUS scar tissue & tight fascia in that area…2)Last winter was not paying attn unloading a bar left behind by someone else & ended up pulling a 45 plate off, NOT seeing the 25 that was in front of it. Spent 4-5 weeks recovering from a broken big & index toe on my left foot. Hurt like a bitch & the waiting in the emergency room was the worst part (5 hour wait until I was considered important enough to look over at 3AM)
LESSON LEARNED watch your feet or where you put them in the gym; people are generally a-holes in the gym & it is the weight/plate you don’t see that will hurt you, not usually the one in your hands/on your back at the time
Squats:
I herniated a disk (L5/S1). I have always practiced good form, never lifting real heavy (305 max X3 reps). Just getting old I suppose?
Dips screwed up my shoulder for about six months, never again. Tweaked my back on max deadlifts, never again…again.
My knees really hate leg extensions.
Bench with my elbows flared wasn’t kind to my shoulders when I did it.
I currently have some thigh/hamstring soreness I have yet to determine the cause of. I suspect sprints but I don’t know for sure. Doing the same movements as deadlifts and squats don’t cause pain but who knows. Sucks though!!! I have had an entire week off and did a light upper body workout last night but still have pain. (wah!)
I have an appointment with a new massage therapist tomorrow, hopefully he can help.