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Fix Your Shoulder Pain (BENCH PRESS!)



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Shoulder ache is among the commonest workout accidents that get in the best way of you making features, particularly in your chest. On this video, I’m going to point out you the way you don’t need to cease doing all of your chest exercises simply because your have ache in your shoulder. In actual fact, I’ll coach you thru the best way to change the best way you might be doing the bench press no matter what sort of shoulder ache you might be experiencing so that you shouldn’t have to surrender the chest features.

First, it helps to know the final sorts of shoulder accidents that may be the supply of your ache. You may both have an damage to the labrum (and sometimes instances biceps tendon as effectively because of the proximity of it to the labrum), rotator cuff, bursitis, impingement, or the AC joint. Every of those has their very own attribute signs that barely differentiate it from the opposite nevertheless it’s best to have your shoulder evaluated in particular person by a professional bodily therapist for a precise prognosis.

In relation to understanding with a shoulder damage it may be actually robust. The truth that your shoulder joint is so cellular and intimately concerned with all higher physique exercises makes it robust to coach round, until you understand how to do it. The bench press is a staple train for constructing an even bigger chest and is one which additionally occurs to be very tough to carry out as soon as shoulder ache or damage has set in. That mentioned, there are tweaks you may make to the motion that make it potential so that you can begin doing it once more and never have it irritate your signs. In actual fact, it might assist to make your shoulder ache go away as you construct it again stronger than ever.

Whenever you take a look at the AC joint damage it’s a must to perceive that it’s prompted largely by pressured inside rotation (particularly with some velocity). This may occur if you goal too low in your chest or overlook to arch your again and produce the ribcage to the bar quite than forcing the bar to hunt out the ribcage. Should you modify the cage up by arching the again and dropping the shoulders again you can’t solely repair the concentrating on of the bar on the chest however you may successfully shorten the depth and preserve your shoulders safer.

With a labrum tear you might be prone to have a drastically compromised shoulder stability. This turns into particularly bothersome if you expertise the ache on the backside of the press. Right here you aren’t solely coping with essentially the most instability however you might be additionally placing the biceps tendon on essentially the most stretch due to the arm extending behind your physique. This causes ache both method. The secret’s to quickly swap to a flooring press to have a extra equal base of assist on your shoulder.

The remainder of the problems are inclined to revolve round one frequent final result and that’s the impingement that may happen in your shoulder from bench urgent. Right here the aim is to create as a lot room as you may within the shoulder joint when doing the train. You may depress your shoulders which is able to deactivate the traps and create extra room within the joint. You may alter the place of the elbows to be nearer to your physique which is able to do the identical factor. Lastly, you may swap the grip from overhand to underhand to be sure to are externally rotating your shoulders and creating room as effectively.

All of those adjustments are small however vital to getting you again to coaching your chest with out shoulder damage. In case you are in search of a program that lets you get all features with out the ache, head to and get the ATHLEAN-X Coaching applications.

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35 Comments

  1. I got shoulder pain after progressing on my weights on the bench press. I went to the doctor and they didn’t quit diagnose the specific issue, but they told me not to lift to let it heal. It suck’s

  2. Im 23 and I feel like something went wrong with my labrum and idk what to do… I was doing dumbbell press last week and and clicking sound happened and since then every time I raise my arm or move my shoulder it makes a clicking sound and im facing a little bit of pain every now and then….

  3. Thanks Jeff! I’m just getting back into working out, and about a month in seems to be the point where I’m realizing the shoulder dislocations I had when I was young are still very much there. Your focus on rotator cuff and general shoulder mechanics is really helping me figure out some ways to start rehabbing those joints so that I can do exercises like the military press (by far the most humbling experience for me at the gym) without it feeling wrong and like I’m fighting my own body just to perform the motion. It’s been an enlightenment to feel all the ways that my strength in an exercise has so much more to do with how large the muscle is.

  4. I have the labrum injury from 10 shoulder dislocations. I’ve hired a few coaches who never explained to me what to do or why I was doing it even though that’s exactly why I spent good money on them to begin with!!!

  5. Once again Jeff great video. People without these injuries should listen to this even more, they never fully heal, as I had to discover later in life. Stay safe make sure to create that space in the shoulder!

  6. Thank you for this, I've been watching you since before I started my workout journey and it's been 3 years I am still coming back for more information whenever I feel something to my pains. Thank you again Sir 🤘

  7. I'm confused because none of that bothers my shoulder when I do the best press it's like in the back shoulder where my armpit is in the back of shoulder area? What is that are called?

  8. Dealing with the first shoulder injury of my life. I don’t want to stop training and give up all my gains, but literally every pressing movement hurts, even when I drop weight significantly.

  9. Such a great video. I recently got back to the gym but my pain is behind the shoulder. Still wondering if it’s rotary cuff pain since it’s not in the areas mentioned in the video.

  10. Thank you! I've been struggling with pressing! Would you be able to address a dumbbell fly safely/painfree with an impingement? also, I'm trying to work on pushups again but the pain is real:(

  11. A real mentor and guide for all age groups… A great teacher….. His Teachings are very thorough… More power to Jeff… Love his content… Never stop man

  12. Going thru physical therapy now, 3wks in actually, this 14min video has given me more incite than all of my knowledge AND sessions with my PT combined. Thank you!

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