People with hurt Shoulders

[Starwind]

I'm curious as to what your shoulder days look like. I've really been slacking on shoulder only exercises. I warm up with some bands every time before working out anything to help out the shoulders and I was doing some military presses yesterday and felt pretty good with light weight. I can't do lateral raises with my injury at all. Any input I'm grateful for. Thank you.

 

[AllTheWay]

i dont do much direct shoulder work either. db or bb presses, front raises, face pulls, leaning laterals, arnolds occasionally. thats about it.

 

[PillarofBalance]

Start off with elliptical to get the arms-a-swinging... 10 minutes is good. Then rotator cuff rotations with a 5lb dumbbell. Then lateral raises with a 10lb dumbell, then shoulder stretches with a broomstick (bring the broomstick up and over your head then behind your back. Then military press. The press works my whole shoulder girdle so everything gets good and warmed up.

I find that with a lot of reps in one workout and a killer pump the pain is worse. So I hit them as fast as possible. If something is bothering me while I'm doing it, I stop and move on to something else. If there is discomfort I take naproxen when I'm done lifting.

My shoulders were really fucked up for a couple years. I did a shit ton of rehab work on them and didn't lift much with my shoulders for years. It paid off. My military press is going great, I can lateral raise again and I have no pain (the bad kind ) after hitting delts.

Be patient about it is my top bit of advice...

 

[Starwind]

I have my home gym where I work out so no Elliptical...I tend to do rotations with the bands because its faster then unloading the IronMasters. 10 pounds may be a lil iffy haha it is pretty bad. I was in rehab for a while for it and that did help a lil bit. You pretty much just did military presses or you go all around? I can probably do some db presses and some military press. I just want to be able to cap them out somewhat for they are easily my weakest point. I'll check our your log and see whats up PoB..

 

[AllTheWay]

for the first year that i was back in the gym i did the elliptical before every workout for about 10 mins. after about 8 months i could barely move my shoulders. i stopped doing it and they started getting better. i think the motion over time was too much for the soft tissues that were already damaged. just saying to be careful with it.