Noob with shoulder pain.

[Aimhigh]

Hello everyone,
This is my first post, I'm from California and I just turned 30 this July. I started lifting weights cause of my job since I felt I wasn't strong enough to not get burned out by it, so after reading some threads on this site I though I should start strength training which has work for the past two weeks Ive played around with it. Now I feel that 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 so here is my problem, I was doing standing presses and then went to work and so 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 feel that overhead pressing is what is getting my shoulder to act up.
Thanks again.

 

[i_love_muscle]

Where exactly is the pain? The shoulder is a fairly complex joint.

The irony of pain is where you present pain is not always where the pain is originating from Only a professional can assess what your problem is.

Therefore, if I were you, I'd go see a physiotherapist. They'll be able to help you and get you back on track.

 

[evolution]

If overhead pressing is causing your shoulders to get jacked up, cut 'em out. There are other ways to work the shoulders. If you have insurance, go see a sports medicine doctor that specializes in orthopaedic surgery and has worked with athletes.

Go read and look up his articles related to the shoulders.

 

[Aimhigh]

Thank you for the responses everyone, I'm almost sure that my shoulder pain is caused or a result of weak shoulders, unfortunately I can't go to a doctor right now but the pain seems to be going away. I plan on doing exercises that will work my rotator cuff and then in a few weeks try standing presses again. I will post back if that fixes my problem.
Thanks again.