More positive results since shoulder issues…
Well, it has only been a few days since my last post, but I have been lifting every morning still and this week I decided to go ahead and do my shoulder day, but to take it easy… well, sort of…
Shoulder day started with a light warm up then consisted of doing military presses with dumbells with my hands turned inward to avoid the painful position. For the first set I used really light dumbells which felt fine, so I upped the weights to 25 pounds each for this. Next I decided to do the lift that usually would cause great pain, the barbell milirtay press. Only, I used a reverse grip with my palms facing me instead of the standard palms facing away grip. Again, this caused no pain. Next I did side laterals with 10 pounds each then upped to 15 pounds each. That was all I attempted for the first shoulder day so far.
This morning I did arms. Since the injury I have avoided doing dips except last week I did some dips off the bench with my feet propped up on a box. This morning I went with regular dips and as long as I kept my elbows tucked against my sides I was fine, but when I allowed my elbows to pull away a little I started feeling some pain in my shoulder, so that was a great reminder to keep the form tight for the rest of the time. The skull crushers and standing barbell curls and the seated dumbell curls did not cause any pain.
Currently the shoulder area is a little tender jsut moving it around because of the dips when I would let the elbows flare out I guess. It should be better by tonight or the morning. Occassionally I will do something to make it hurt and it doesn’t take too long to quit hurting.
The shoulder is definitely getting better with all the babying it I am doing and lifting around the issue and I am happy with the abilities I still have to lift by slightly modifying the tecnique. I miss being able to bench press a decent amouint of weight, however I have been making my pecs quite sore with the lighter dumbell bench presses and focusing more on the incline press which I can do with good, heavy weight still.
Things are looking up!
