Hey guys. I've had a shoulder injury for the past couple of months now that has forced me to stop working out my chest and shoulders.

Whenever I do exercises such as shoulder press, bench press, DB chest press, cable flies, machine flies, machine chest press, lateral raises and front raises, I always get a pain in my lower left shoulder after doing a bunch of reps.

 

This is where I'm talking about:

It only comes on after I do a few repetitions, and it worsens the more repetitions I do. If I try to push through it and finish my exercise, the pain lingers for a while after. I have no problem doing reverse flies for targetting the posterior deltoid, so it must be something to do with the middle or anterior deltoid.

I do not get the pain any other time beside when doing the exercises listed above. I'm able to train biceps, triceps, legs, back and core just fine, but can't train chest or shoulders. I've taken chest and shoulders off for a couple of weeks, then started off with an extremely light shoulder session and still felt it. I was able to get through the session because I was using very light weight, but again I still noticed it and it ached a for a little bit after the exercise.

I've been to the physio who says it's probably some sort of inflammation, and even suggested tendonitis. She gave me some resistance band exercises to do which I have been doing but seeing no improvements with. I tried dry needling as well which didn't seem to help. I'm organizing to see my doctor and hopefully get an ultra sound or even an MRI on it.

I thought I'd post here to see if anyone else has had this problem or knows what it could be.

Thanks very much.

Hey guys. I've had a shoulder injury for the past couple of months now that has forced me to stop working out my chest and shoulders.

Whenever I do exercises such as shoulder press, bench press, DB chest press, cable flies, machine flies, machine chest press, lateral raises and front raises, I always get a pain in my lower left shoulder after doing a bunch of reps.

 

This is where I'm talking about:

It only comes on after I do a few repetitions, and it worsens the more repetitions I do. If I try to push through it and finish my exercise, the pain lingers for a while after. I have no problem doing reverse flies for targetting the posterior deltoid, so it must be something to do with the middle or anterior deltoid.

I do not get the pain any other time beside when doing the exercises listed above. I'm able to train biceps, triceps, legs, back and core just fine, but can't train chest or shoulders. I've taken chest and shoulders off for a couple of weeks, then started off with an extremely light shoulder session and still felt it. I was able to get through the session because I was using very light weight, but again I still noticed it and it ached a for a little bit after the exercise.

I've been to the physio who says it's probably some sort of inflammation, and even suggested tendonitis. She gave me some resistance band exercises to do which I have been doing but seeing no improvements with. I tried dry needling as well which didn't seem to help. I'm organizing to see my doctor and hopefully get an ultra sound or even an MRI on it.

I thought I'd post here to see if anyone else has had this problem or knows what it could be.

Thanks very much.

Yeah I'm kind of worried it might be some sort of tendonitis as well.

 

The physio has been massaging my upper back and loosening that up quite a bit. I did feel an area in my upper left back next to my shoulder blade that I felt might be connected to my injury because of the type of pain I felt when she was digging into it.

 

I'm heading to the doctors on Wednesday so I can get an ultrasound to find out if it's tendonitis.

 

Thanks for the help!

Hey guys. I've had a shoulder injury for the past couple of months now that has forced me to stop working out my chest and shoulders.

Whenever I do exercises such as shoulder press, bench press, DB chest press, cable flies, machine flies, machine chest press, lateral raises and front raises, I always get a pain in my lower left shoulder after doing a bunch of reps.

 

This is where I'm talking about:

It only comes on after I do a few repetitions, and it worsens the more repetitions I do. If I try to push through it and finish my exercise, the pain lingers for a while after. I have no problem doing reverse flies for targetting the posterior deltoid, so it must be something to do with the middle or anterior deltoid.

I do not get the pain any other time beside when doing the exercises listed above. I'm able to train biceps, triceps, legs, back and core just fine, but can't train chest or shoulders. I've taken chest and shoulders off for a couple of weeks, then started off with an extremely light shoulder session and still felt it. I was able to get through the session because I was using very light weight, but again I still noticed it and it ached a for a little bit after the exercise.

I've been to the physio who says it's probably some sort of inflammation, and even suggested tendonitis. She gave me some resistance band exercises to do which I have been doing but seeing no improvements with. I tried dry needling as well which didn't seem to help. I'm organizing to see my doctor and hopefully get an ultra sound or even an MRI on it.

I thought I'd post here to see if anyone else has had this problem or knows what it could be.

Thanks very much.

Hey guys, thanks for the help.

 

I went to the doctor today and he thinks it is tendonitis. He says I need to rest my shoulder and give it time to heal. I have taken off shoulders and chest for the past 3 or so weeks anyway, and he thinks I should give it another 1-2 weeks. What I might do is take chest and shoulders off until the end of the year, and once the new year starts I'll build up my strength again and then get stuck into Scott's new 12 week transformation program coming out in January :)