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I got a slight issue with my right shoulder.

I've been feeling it a little over the last week or so, but it feels worse today. It feels like the shoulder joint is hurtning in it's socket and today is a heavy chest press day and shoulders.

I also feel my shoulder when I do pull ups.

When I hold my hand up in certain positions it hurts, like holding my hand to my chin, is actually suprisingly uncomfortable and hard to hold in this position.

Pushing a door today caused me to wince a bit. Do I work through it, or take today and tomorrow off as rest? Basically restart again on Monday...

Is it bad enough for me to not be able to work out, probably not. But the question is should I be training if it is causing me a problem.
 
This could be any number of issues, but is probably tight shoulders and tight pecs.

Rest up for a week and visit the mobility thread. :)
 
opethdisciple said:
I got a slight issue with my right shoulder.

I've been feeling it a little over the last week or so, but it feels worse today. It feels like the shoulder joint is hurtning in it's socket and today is a heavy chest press day and shoulders.

I also feel my shoulder when I do pull ups.

When I hold my hand up in certain positions it hurts, like holding my hand to my chin, is actually suprisingly uncomfortable and hard to hold in this position.

Pushing a door today caused me to wince a bit. Do I work through it, or take today and tomorrow off as rest? Basically restart again on Monday...

Is it bad enough for me to not be able to work out, probably not. But the question is should I be training if it is causing me a problem.
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Welcome to the shoulder aids club.

Honestly, rest it and mobilise the buggery out of it while you have a break from shoulder/chest/pressing work.
 
Hopeful it's as simple as resting it. But no one likes not working out....

I've always been told that you cant afford to take time off if you want to make progress. If you take time off every time you have a niggleing injury you wont get anywhere. (That’s what I've been told anyway)

But I guess yes I think I have to, reluctantly take the time off.

My plan was two fold. Take today off and see how the shoulder is tomorrow and basically push my workout along by a day. Or skip today’s session (chest and shoulders) altogether and move on to back biceps on Friday.

But, it really isn’t feeling good at all. So might take until Monday off as rest and hope it is better by then.
 
Would you rather work through a potential injury, make it worse and be off for two/three months? Or take one week off, rest it and MOBILISE IT, then get back to training?

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Rest it, and do lots of mobility with it, if you don't do the mobility you'll be back to square one in a few weeks with the same shoulder injury.
 
opethdisciple said:
I've always been told that you cant afford to take time off if you want to make progress. If you take time off every time you have a niggleing injury you wont get anywhere. (That’s what I've been told anyway)
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That macho bull**** is all well and good until you can't even dress yourself because it's too painful to put a shirt on and you've completely minced your shoulder joint.
There are times when pushing through some mild discomfort is fine but when it comes to complex joints like the shoulder it's best to sort it quickly.
 
That's not a very clever way of looking at it. Sure, progress is disrupted by time off, but you're not going to revert to a YOLO by missing a session.

In addition, over-working soft tissue and injures tissue leads to its own problems.

So whoever told you that was either talking in very broad terms, talking rubbish, or you misunderstood them.
 
Trufax, around 40% of injuries lifters suffer are shoulder related, which is actually worse than lower back. I think knees are third or tied 2nd.

Two studies if you feel like reading:
Barlow JC, et al., Shoulder strength and range-of-motion characteristics in bodybuilders. J Strength Cond Res 16: 367-372, 2002.
Goertzen, M., et al., [Injuries and damage caused by excess stress in body building and power lifting]. Sportverletzung Sportschaden, 1989. 3(1): p. 32-6.

I had an iffy neck/trap and went to the gym anyway because I was being pig-headed. My iffy neck/trap turned into a sprained trap and torn scalene muscle in my neck. 3 months without being allowed to touch a barbell. Still getting back slowly to where I was before. Lesson = better to take a week or two off than spaz yourself up and have to take months off.
 
I found this which seems quite informative.

I can put those 'round the worlds' in to my workout, but any recommendation for sets reps?

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I remember feeling the pain on Monday. I do a heavy set of shoulder presses then I move on to high rep chest stuff. And during the chest stuff I could feel my right shoulder. I've also been feeling it during pull ups too.

I just tried doing some of those shoulder dislocations and I am very very tight.
 
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