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Question for weight lifters
I've been working out for a few weeks and i hurt my shoulder. I waited for it to get better, and it did, then i hurt it again working out. Funny thing is its actually my good shoulder. I hurt it doing the shoulder work outs.
So today is my legs and back day. Im curious if its a bad idea to do those work outs. I wont be intentionally working my shoulder, but it will be required to do a bit of lifting and holding in place. I mainly want to do (I forgot the name, forgive my ignorance) that workout where you baisically pick up a straight bar off the ground and stand up, then set it down. It works the back and legs.
There was another workout i was gonna do but it would be too stressfull on my shoulder. I will obviously be doing squats as well. Any alternative workouts, tips, etc is welcome. I do want to stay focused though cause i want to keep working out, but dont want to damage my shoulder. I need it for kung fu class.
One more thing. I usually do push ups and pull ups every day. I know this will put some stress on my shoulders, do yall think it would be too much? Thank you for your time.
So today is my legs and back day. Im curious if its a bad idea to do those work outs. I wont be intentionally working my shoulder, but it will be required to do a bit of lifting and holding in place. I mainly want to do (I forgot the name, forgive my ignorance) that workout where you baisically pick up a straight bar off the ground and stand up, then set it down. It works the back and legs.
There was another workout i was gonna do but it would be too stressfull on my shoulder. I will obviously be doing squats as well. Any alternative workouts, tips, etc is welcome. I do want to stay focused though cause i want to keep working out, but dont want to damage my shoulder. I need it for kung fu class.
One more thing. I usually do push ups and pull ups every day. I know this will put some stress on my shoulders, do yall think it would be too much? Thank you for your time.
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Shoulder injuries are pretty serious from my experience. I've torn a rotator cuff as well as had something called "cavitation", thats where the shoulder socket moves slightly out of place and pinches the muscle, or thats how it was explained to me, by physical therapist. You might have strained your muscle lifting to much to soon or done something worse, my experience was that caviation is fairly common but hurts a great deal (some days i couldn't lift my arm or do any lifting). Rest it, and ice it, if it gets still hurts in a few days or gets worse get it checked out, but I wouldn't be doing much lifting if I were you.
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Just rub some dirt on it and get back in the weight room! Seriously, continue to do whatever movement makes it hurt, but use a lighter weight. Keep going heavier till it starts to hurt, then back off just a skoshe and stay there till it stops hurting and gradually go up. Pain is not necessarily caused by an injury, but if you have an injury, you must rest it. Also, warm up exersizes are a must. When lifting weights, you need to do a warm up set for each muscle group to get blood into the muscle.
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