ESmetalhead
New member
I would like to put this in the training forum to keep people from needing to in the injury forum.
Something I can contribute to the MG is what I have I have learned over the last 6 months from this damn shoulder injury is how valuable, complex and abused this joint is. I’m no writer, my grammar and spelling is terrible and there are much much better resources online on this subject. But perhaps the value in doing this is to remind everyone to think about posture, function and protecting this ball and socket. I wish I would have thought about this when my body told me, by way of minor aching pain when doing bent over rows. The doctor was no help I guess he didn’t know much about exercise. I stopped doing rows and bench press for years then the last two years I was able to do bench but not rows without lasting pain. I was making some good gains and was injury/ ache free a rare thing as I have had tendinitis in both elbows for far too long. So the problem was shoulder impingement that somehow became frozen shoulder. This came about from my poor posture, rounded shoulders and not listening or understanding my body. The ache in the back of my shoulders was telling me something was wrong but it was mild and I thought I could work around it.
The problem was shoulder impingement this is caused by grounding and rolling your shoulders forward stead of pulling them back. Stand as you normally do in front of a mirror with your arms to your side, do you see the back of your hand or is your thumb forward? With proper posture your thumb to be forward in your palms to your side. Our most basic exercise movements for for our shoulders forward benchpress and even lat pull downs. At the same time same time we ignore out posterior deltoids and our traps specially lower traps. Are tons of great videos to show you guys how to make all these neglected muscles stronger shoulders optimal position, keeping them healthy and strong. Something I have come up with and feel is very useful for reminding me to correct my posture is have someone put KT tape across your back over your shoulder blades. This serves as a sensory reminder keep your shoulders back it works great for me I do it almost daily. Tucking in your scapula is very important for doing benchpress in fact all the exercise I do I try to keep my shoulders back as much as possible.
So look at your own posture, investigate exercise to correct it, dont neglect your posterior delts and traps and try my KT tape idea
Cheers!
