A Closer Look At…….Shoulder Pain
Note from TG: the post below will take you to my latest article over at LiveStrong.com.
It’s Monday, otherwise known as National Bench Press Day.
Like so many others in the same weekly routine, you dutifully head to the gym after work, get to the locker room and toss your gym bag into a locker, give your training partner a fist pump and head out to the gym floor to get your bench on.
Set one, and you feel like a rock star. You turn up your iPod a little louder and add some more weight.
Set two, and you notice something weird. The shoulder that’s been a little “tweaky” for the past few weeks is starting to act up again. You’ve been ignoring it, taking the attitude that it’s just something that comes with the territory when lifting. You shrug it off, add a little more weight and think to yourself, “Once I’m warmed-up, it’ll be fine.”
Set three, and the pain is still there. But you’d sooner jump into a live volcano than skip bench day. There’s no chance you’re bowing out. So you add more weight.
Set four, and “Houston, we have a problem!”
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UPDATE: For those interested (which I’m assuming is like, two people) I caught the mouse!!!! We used an electrical mouse trap. Basically, you place the food inside, turn it on, the mouse enters, and its zapped into oblivion.
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Comments for This Entry
Lars
Correction: Electrical mousetrap: 1 Great White Hunter (Tony): 0 Mouse: 0June 29, 2011 at 7:05 am |
JB
Nice! Good leaders know when to delegate. At my advanced age of 36 (it's not the years, it's the mileage) I don't do any open chain horizontal pressing any more, all closed chain (dips, push-ups). Sometimes you have to know when to say when.June 29, 2011 at 8:33 am |
Koalkracker
To perform the standing shoulder W, grasp a piece of rubber tubing with your hands about shoulder-width apart while holding your thumbs up, instead of pointing them back Having a hard time picturing this, are hands at side or straight out at start positon? Do thumbs end up pointing at sky or posteriorly at the top position?June 29, 2011 at 10:39 am |
Nock
Tony, Do you have these stretches you mentioned in your article somewhere in your youtube video library?June 29, 2011 at 10:45 am |
Scott
http://www.mikereinold.com/2011/04/the-shoulder-w-exercise.html The shoulder W. Nock, at the bottom of the article he gives links to all the other stretches.June 29, 2011 at 3:04 pm |
Tony Gentilcore
@ Scott: thanks for hooking that link up! @ Nock: which stretches in particular were you referring to?June 30, 2011 at 6:36 pm |
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i just wanna thank you for sharing your information and your site or blog this is simple but nice article I’ve ever seen like it i learn something today…September 25, 2011 at 8:35 pm |
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