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Today was chest/bench day and I was feeling pretty good going into the gym. Hadn’t done chest/bench since the 2nd (5days ago) and was feeling fresh and ready to rock. I did do shoulders/press though.
Started with 135x12 as a warmup and noticed a little twinge of pain in the right shoulder. Kind of burning, tearing sensation, but mild, primarily on the negative portion of the reps. It was just a little twinge and thought it might have something to do with warming up, so I did some arm circles and light stretching to work it out.
Went to 225x3, same thing.
next set was 275, I wanted to hit 4-5, but ended up having to put the thing back on the rack due to the pain, which by now had spread to the left shoulder.
Did a little decline after that to try to push through it and make the day worthwhile, thinking that there’d be less delt involvement and thus less painful. It was, but only the slightest bit less. Now, both shoulders are pretty tender whenever moving my arms to the rear (like a high row, or negative bench type motion)
The red area is where I’m feeling it. It’s pretty close to the surface, not a joint/bone thing.
Could be pain radiating from your rotator cuff. I’ve seen radiating pain to the scap, anterior shoulder, and almost down to the elbow. It’s really hard to hurt your medial delt with that movement.
Do some loaded push ups for a while, the closed chain aspect should take away most of the pain, since you will be more stable.
Also, how is your posture? How do your scapula look? Do you normally have any problems with your shoulder(s)? Does it hurt to externally rotate with your arm bent at 90? What about internally rotate and bring your elbow to the ceiling?
[quote]Im_New_Feed_Me wrote:
Could be pain radiating from your rotator cuff. I’ve seen radiating pain to the scap, anterior shoulder, and almost down to the elbow. It’s really hard to hurt your medial delt with that movement.
Do some loaded push ups for a while, the closed chain aspect should take away most of the pain, since you will be more stable.
Also, how is your posture? How do your scapula look? Do you normally have any problems with your shoulder(s)? Does it hurt to externally rotate with your arm bent at 90? What about internally rotate and bring your elbow to the ceiling?
P.S - Shoulder injuries are a bitch.[/quote]
Thanks for the reply!
posture is generally good, upright, shoulders back.
I do have a minor issue with my left shoulder/collarbone. Separated sometime back, never bother with surgery to reattach it. Since that separation, I’ve been able to seated press 225 and bench 315 with no pain, (before I turned into a lazy sack for a year and a half) so I don’t think that has anything to do with it. (plus the pain started on the right side)
Shoulder doesn’t hurt in any of the above sequences you mentioned. It did yesterday, but now that the soreness has gone away almost 100% it doesn’t bother me to move it like that. Never bothered me before yesterday either, which I why I’m baffled as to what happened.
It does however creak and crack a bit if I do elbow 90 backward arm circles. No pain, just a creaky popping sensation.
Creaks or pops are no problem. My jaw does the same thing. It’s just the joint hitting against the end of the socket when you are at the end range of motion. Rule is with cracks and pops is that if it doesn’t hurt don’t worry about it.
Same with knee cracks and neck cracks. Cartilage on cartilage.
I’m glad to hear everything is back to normal, I’ve considered more than a few times just taking out the flat barbell bench from my programming, but I can’t bring myself to do it… .Oh well, we will see what happens when I am 50.
That makes sense.
My pecs have been tighter lately, and I probably haven’t been stretching as much as I should.
The only counter-indicator is that I generally do more pulling work than pushing, but with some caveats. My pulling stuff sucks compared to my pressing movements because of a crushed musculocutaneous nerve in my right arm from a motorcycle accident way back when. (7 years) Right bicep has never been the same. Docs said I’d never have 100% recruitment back. It’s come along way since then, but nowhere near what it once was. As a result of that, my pulling movements; rows, pullups, chins, etc, are pretty dismal.
