Shoulder pain

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Since few days ago, I've started having pain in my left shoulder.
My chest and shoulder workouts are suffering from it.
The shoulders have always been my weakest muscles.
It hurts when I'm doing pushing movements.

The pain isn't that bad, but I don't wanna push my self too much on pushing exercises like bench press because I don't want my shoulder to give out and have a bigger accident.

I did a little reading, and shoulder injury/pain seems pretty common in people who workout. I read that most probably it's the rotator cuff that's causing the problem. Any ideas on how I might fix my shoulder problem?
 
Strengthen the muscles of the shoulder girdle. One of the ones that has worked for smoe is elevated iso holds.

Most people who do exercise experience shoulder pain. Mainly because they want big benches without a good concrete foundation for the house.
 
Well, I'm not a racist... I give all my muscles equal treatment. Every muscle is worked out as much as it should. Shoulder is always hit hard.
 
Well, I'm not a racist...
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:jump1: lol

And also when you bench where do you bring the bar to? You upper chest or lower?

Iv worked out, that bringing the bar to my lower chest takes a lot of stress off the shoulders and feels like it puts more on the pecs.
 
Thats not what I meant. I am saying that if you work to strengthen your shoulder girdle, then you'll be able to handle bigger benches.
 
BigTomW said:
:jump1: lol

And also when you bench where do you bring the bar to? You upper chest or lower?

Iv worked out, that bringing the bar to my lower chest takes a lot of stress off the shoulders and feels like it puts more on the pecs.
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I'm bringing the bar to my lower chest, at the nipple area.
But of course when I do Incline bench(which I always do along with flath bench) , I'm bringing the bar to the upper chest area, and the shoulder gets a decent workout from incline bench.

tonymcclellan said:
Thats not what I meant. I am saying that if you work to strengthen your shoulder girdle, then you'll be able to handle bigger benches.
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How do I do that, do you have any set of exercise that would help me achieve that.
I'm doing little to no shoulder work now because it's causing me pain.
Like I said I can lift with the pain in my shoulder, it's bearable, but I don't wanna make things worse by working it. I'm doing some front and side raises, mostly isolation for my shoulders, no military press or something like that, also taking it light during chest workout.
 
Iso hold pushups, external/internal roations.

One other thing, does your arm stop at parallel to shoulder? As in can you not move it any farther?
 
tonymcclellan said:
Iso hold pushups, external/internal roations.

One other thing, does your arm stop at parallel to shoulder? As in can you not move it any farther?
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Thanks, I'll try that

No my arm doesn't stop at parallel, I can move my arm normally, however I have some pain when I move it.
 
I am having this exact same problem except it's in my right shoulder.

Shoulder day is tommorrow and I don't know if I should even work it?

Would you guys just work through the pain? Or just take a week off from the shoulders? How long will this take until this pain goes away?

It started on a chest day, I think during pec flys I went down too far. Did I actually injure it?

Like when I raise my right arm with no weight as if I was doing a DB shoulder press it hurts, there is a popping and a grinding on my shoulder, like some bone is out of place...
 
IMO never work through pain, especially shoulder pain. The shoulder and scapula have so many muscles that are linked there that you could really **** something up.

Its most likely the beginning of impingement syndrome (google it) and needs to be rested. This is the same thing that was going on with CCR when we started working together. What did we do, we removed the pain causing movement all together. We then through in some shoulder girdle strengthening movements and wohla, his shoulders are stronger then ever. We still continue to do those movements, but now he can bench and OHP with no pain.
 
Do what tony says. Never work through the pain. I had shoulder issues for a couple of years open water swimming and it is not worth the ammount of time it takes them to recover.

Shoulder pain sucks, i know I had it 24/7 for a whole year dont risk it unless you know its going to be ok.
 
I hurt my shoulder ( rotator cuff? ) a while ago when i was an IDIOT and i tried maxing my military press ( yes I know what your thinking.,.. ). I had this annoying pain in my right shoulder when ever i was doing any shoulder exercises, it went away after a couple weeks.
 
vojdancov said:
Since few days ago, I've started having pain in my left shoulder.
My chest and shoulder workouts are suffering from it.
The shoulders have always been my weakest muscles.
It hurts when I'm doing pushing movements.

The pain isn't that bad, but I don't wanna push my self too much on pushing exercises like bench press because I don't want my shoulder to give out and have a bigger accident.

I did a little reading, and shoulder injury/pain seems pretty common in people who workout. I read that most probably it's the rotator cuff that's causing the problem. Any ideas on how I might fix my shoulder problem?
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You might wanna be checked out by the Doc. I saw a workout on youtube designed to work out to strenghten a shoulder injury but I can't find the link, nor would I recommend it till you get it checked out.
 
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