Noob with shoulder pain.

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Hello everyone,
This is my first post, I'm a guy from California and I just turned 30 this July. I started weight lifting because of my job. I felt I wasn't strong enough to not get burned out so after reading some threads on this site I though I should strength train which has worked for the past two weeks Ive played around with it.

Now I want to get serious but I have a problem, since strength training from what I understand is about consistently adding weight to your sets here is where I get stuck, I was doing standing presses and then went to work. After two hours into my work day my right shoulder starts hurting.

I have a felling that its not all of the weights fault since I do some heavy lifting at work, I started doing rotator cuff therapy exercises and I think this will help out some but I hate missing a work out due to a painful and weak shoulder muscle, so if anyone has some advice I would appreciate it.
Thank you for reading.

Oh, and I was wondering if its necessary to do standing presses or could I just get away with doing bench presses? the reason I ask this is because I think that overhead pressing is what is getting my shoulder to act up.
Thanks again.
 
both standing press and bench press are very tough on your shoulders. i would stay away from them for the next few weeks. build up the muscles around the shoulder while you wait and do lots of lateral raises/front raises/any rotator cuff exercise. you can do seated row, bicep curls, hang cleans, tricep push-downs, etc, without hurting the shoulder at all.

check out fortismag.com. they have lots of workouts that you can do and they might give you some more ideas as to what to do with your shoulder.
 
Thank you J I'll be doing the exercises you commented on, although, I'm curious to know if I should be doing low resistance exercises instead of the other, I don't mind gaining weight but my necessity would be 1. strength 2. agility, so should I be doing more reps with moderate weight for this type of gain?
 
in order to gain muscle (which is different from strength) you have to tear your muscles up, break them down, and then let them re-build.

in order to gain strength there are a million different approaches. i personally would recommend doing 3-5 repetitions with high weight. i don't gain much weight when i do a program where i lift heavy with low reps and then do cardio work.

on , if you go to the weight training section, then look at some of the programs you might be able to find what your looking for.
 
well I went to the gym tonight and did 3X10 on some of the shoulder weight machines. My shoulder feels better and I can do that stretch (the one that looks like your trying to choke your self with your bicep) without feeling any pain, and I have some ice on it right now, but something occurred to me on my drive back why the heck am I doing shoulder isolation exercises to strengthen my shoulder isn't that what standing presses are for? should I be doing standing presses with less weight to heal my muscle? Dam I'm so :confused:
 
I went to the gym this morning and did almost the same thing that I did last time, the only thing I added where very light presses. After looking at some shoulder warm up routines on you tube and using some it seem to be working I can also feel my shoulder getting stronger. I F'ed up when I tried to press heavy and no warm up, so thank you for the advice.
 
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