October 8 of last year I injured my right shoulder and am currently recovering from a rotator cuff impingement after a broken clavicle several months before that! It has been frustrating and a VERY slow process to say the least. Anyone who has suffered through a shoulder injury knows what I am talking about.
I have spent most of my weight training life injury free until recently so I had to up my game on educating myself on injury recovery and injury prevention. In this process it finally hit home to me how important the stabilizer muscles are to our overall training.
Long story short, for my specific injury I needed to come up with a way to relieve my impingement to the point that I felt comfortable doing pushing exercises again. I landed on the idea of using bands, physical therapy, massage and very light warm up weights. One warm up drill in particular has help immensely in my opinion in relieving discomfort when doing pushing exercises. Here is a video I found while cruising through Jeff Cavalier's video library. Give it a try and see if it works for you -
SEMPER FI
I have spent most of my weight training life injury free until recently so I had to up my game on educating myself on injury recovery and injury prevention. In this process it finally hit home to me how important the stabilizer muscles are to our overall training.
Long story short, for my specific injury I needed to come up with a way to relieve my impingement to the point that I felt comfortable doing pushing exercises again. I landed on the idea of using bands, physical therapy, massage and very light warm up weights. One warm up drill in particular has help immensely in my opinion in relieving discomfort when doing pushing exercises. Here is a video I found while cruising through Jeff Cavalier's video library. Give it a try and see if it works for you -
SEMPER FI