Remember the joke that went like…?
A man goes to the Doctor. Man to Doctor: "Ya know Doc my shoulder really hurts when I move my arm like this!" Doctor to man: "Then don’t move your arm like that!" Ba rump bump!
It’s really two very simple principals which seem to allude most If you experiance pain it’s a signal that something is wrong. If what you are doing is painful stop.
We are not talking about discomfort here but actual pain, for some reason some people have a hard time grasping this as well. But that could be a topic all on its own merits.
Today while training the lower weight room was quite full and since this is where the free weights are and I wanted to do Barbell Curls part of my task was finding a place to do them.
Amongst all the other people milling about I found a place down at the end of the long Dumbbell racks in front of the mirrors and laid my Barbbell across the end of a flat bench which is my usual method for resting the barbell while doing curls (NO SQUAT RACK CURLS HERE!)
A woman was standing kind of off to my side behind me using another flat bench to do various Dumbbell raises, presses, upright Barbell rows etc. basically the whole gammit of shoulder exercises.
As I began my first set of curls I heard her say some thing put her barbell down and grab her shoulder. I finished my set waited a min to see if she was ok or just had a good burn going, she seemed ok and proceeded to do another set.
She stopped again and grabbed her shoulder which happened through each set of every conceivable exercise you can imagine and kept saying "Whoo Damn that hurts!" "Man that really kills!" "Jessus Christ!" etc. I surmised at this point it wasn’t just a good burn but her shoulder was really hurting as she only did this with one side.
As she did start her work out with Barbell Upright Rows and then really heavy Front raises I can only asume she has some inpingment issues if not worse but to make this even more sad of a state I completed my five sets of Barbell Curls left went to the Locker room put a few things away came back did forarms left again went to the locker room then went to the cardio room for about 30 Min of Cardio she was still training shoulders! about 5min before I finished my Cardio I see her walking through on the way to the ladies locker room having just finished one marathon shoulder session rubbing her shoulder all the way "Damn that hurts!" "Right freaking here Jesus!"
At this point I’d like to update the joke.
A woman goes to the Doctor………………………………..
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